“There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster… — Phillip Connors Copy Share Image
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“None of us have ever left the borders of this forest, we do not know the way out of it. And to… — Nikola Stefan Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate… — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia,… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles… — Cuba Gooding, Jr Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young,… — Jennifer Pharr Davis Copy Share Image
The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves… — J. Meredith Neil Copy Share Image
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
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