Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very… — Suzan-Lori Parks
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell… — Charles R. Swindoll
Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the… — Bernd Heinrich
Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land. — Jane Kirkpatrick
You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty. — Alastair Humphreys
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a… — Rick Santelli
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any… — Abraham Lincoln
Laws change; people die; the land remains. — Abraham Lincoln
I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the… — Richard Proenneke
To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger.… — Edward Abbey
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .… — Freeman Dyson
The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the… — Henry David Thoreau
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas… — James Lee Burke
For life is a journey through a wilderness — Bruce Chatwin
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,… — Henry David Thoreau
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary.… — William Cronon
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… — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Henry David Thoreau
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the… — Oscar Wilde
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness. — Mencius
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and move off into… — Thomas Carlyle
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. — Ellen Glasgow

Who Wrote These Wilderness Quotes

322 authors contributed a total of 534 Wilderness Quotes, led by these top contributors: