Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots?… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The wilderness is where all the creatives and prophets and system-buckers and risk-takers have always lived, and it is stunningly vibrant. The… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Most people regard the primeval forest as a threatening domain of wilderness trails that often lead bewildered hikers to their deaths, nests… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it.… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present.… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally,… — Samuel Warren Carey Copy Share Image
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Wilderness has become one of the world's fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable. Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness.… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
Britain has some of the finest climbing on the planet, with a sense of wilderness that rivals anywhere else on earth. You… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines,… — edward abbey Copy Share Image
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When troubles come our way, we can be stressed and upset, or we can trust God. Caleb could have cursed God. He… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard,… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
“To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor,… — Mary Ellen Hannibal Copy Share Image
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
