Catastrophe Quote by Ansel Adams

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of…

— Khalil Gibran

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it…

— Anonymous

Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship,…

— Sigurd F. Olson

A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the…

— Howard Zahniser

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

— Loren Eiseley

The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an…

— Julian Hawthorne

Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast…

— David Ehrenfeld

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved —…

— Wallace Stegner

“the greatest danger which today’s humanity need fear is not a catastrophe which comes from out there somewhere, a stellar catastrophe, neither is it…

— Luigi Giussani

We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one…

— Howard Zahniser

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

— Robert Lucas, Jr