Snowden is the thoughtful, courageous saint of liberal reform. And Julian Assange is a sort of radical, feral prophet who has been… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles.… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated mass of greenery, an… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“self-reliant hero. As soon as he graduates college, he gives away all of his savings and wanders the wild, seeking adventure and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much… — James Nestor Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the… — Alice Valdal Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish… — Michael Basman Copy Share Image
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and… — Howard Frank Mosher Copy Share Image
It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness'… — Doug Peacock Copy Share Image
“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’… — Robert Moor Copy Share Image
Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
“Their minds told them this life was not their own. This life was not the one designed for this body and soul.… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
