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Wilderness Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
- In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
- The Library is a wilderness of books.
- It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities…
- In wildness is the preservation of the world.
- Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- All good things are wild and free.
- Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
- In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
- The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever…
- I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
- The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.
More Wilderness Quotes
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — 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… — Tom Bodett
- My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for… — 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… — Alan Alda
- To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Aiden Wilson Tozer