Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a… — Brian Froud
I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people. — Tim DeChristopher
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy. — Horace Kephart
Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings… — John Oliver
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version,… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very… — Aldo Leopold
The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered… — Aldo Leopold
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as… — Wallace Stegner
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a… — Wallace Stegner
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, — Wallace Stegner
Without wilderness, the world's a cage. — David R. Brower
We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without… — Joseph Wood Krutch
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… — Joseph Conrad
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army… — Edward Abbey
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.… — Edward Abbey
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness. — Edward Abbey
Wilderness begins in the human mind. — Edward Abbey
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. — George Bernard Shaw
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our… — George B. Cortelyou
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… — Edward Abbey
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage… — John Flavel

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