“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
“I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly;… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Oh my goodness, I hate camping. I am like Frida times 1,000. I have always been attracted to wilderness stories, à la… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible,… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in… — Ansel Adams 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
I wasn't in a position that some other memoirists are, dealing with families who fed them meth, or kidnapped them, or did… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded… — T. H. Watkins Copy Share Image
I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When you’re in the wild, there’s nothing to hide behind. No bars or credit cards or movie theatres or cell phones or… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth… — Francis Bacon 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
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no… — J.M. McDermott Copy Share Image
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
The first television show I did was a production called 'The Pacific,' which was this huge HBO series with an insane budget… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
If we're talking about Sinai, we can't understand it without the 1967 and 1973 wars, and you can't understand it without the… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life,… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
