Wilderness Quotes

534 quotes by 337 authors

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I… — Margaret Atwood
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the… — Tom Bodett
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. — Elayne Boosler
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll… — Alan Alda
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of… — Christopher Alexander
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit… — Jane Campion
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter
Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming… — Henry David Thoreau
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who… — Brooks Atkinson
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational… — John Culliney
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our… — Terry Tempest Williams
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the… — William Cowper
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it. — Douglas Horton
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch… — Charles Lindbergh
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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