Wilderness Quotes · Page 3

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

— Harvey Broome

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

— John Muir

“Do not harbour any bitterness, it will lead you straight into the wilderness.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.”

— Jan Karon

The wilderness needs your whole attention.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.”

— Dennis Garvin

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

— John Muir

“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over. 6.”

— John Bunyan

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

— Thomas Cole

“I was spun into gold ropes, silk petals and rebuilt in it I found more of Him in it And me in…

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

“The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.”

— Daniel J. Rice

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

— John Muir

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

— Aldo Leopold

The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else…

— Aldo Leopold

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use,…

— Michael K. Simpson

“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep…

— Rebecca Solnit

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely…

— Aldo Leopold

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement…

— Edward Abbey

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,…

— Wilkie Collins

My values are primarily motivated by love for other people. I value the non-human world in large part because it's so vital…

— Tim DeChristopher

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Oliver Stone should be given a helping hand - indeed, a vigorous shove - into the land of forced retirement. There, in…

— Haim Saban

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to…

— James F. Cooper

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also…

— Russell Kirk

“[Thoreau's] famous night in jail took place about halfway through his stay in the cabin on Emerson's woodlot at Walden Pond. His…

— Rebecca Solnit

“...I found myself questioning many assumptions about 'nature' and 'wilderness' that were common in conservation at the time. Were all introduced species…

— Emma Marris

As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.…

— Jimmy Carter

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of…

— Michael Pollan

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the…

— George Saunders

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Wilds whisper, yet I long for their roar.”

— Gin Getz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

— Cornel West

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

— Baltasar Gracian

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

— Harvey Broome

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

— Stewart Udall