“God’s wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!” — John Cage Copy Share Image
I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the Promised Land without going through some wilderness… — Charlie W Shedd Copy Share Image
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell… — Paul Gruchow Copy Share Image
I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“On the bus was an old lady from Boston, and when she learned what I was going to do, she was horrified… — Jacob Clifford Moomaw Copy Share Image
All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things:… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I can't sleep in an isolated place without pills, earplugs, and both my children in bed with me for fear of scary,… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
“To brave the wilderness and become the wilderness we must learn how to trust ourselves and trust others.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.” — Durs Grünbein Copy Share Image
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce… — John L. Culliney Copy Share Image
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.” — Robert F. Perkins Copy Share Image
All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
“[I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image