Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to… — Phyllis McGinley
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. — Thomas Cole
Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness… — Nick Rahall
It is good to take a weekend and just you, or you and your dog, head out into the wilderness. Walk by yourself. Be by… — Frederick Lenz
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to… — Harvey Broome
Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids… — Harvey Broome
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness… — Aubrey Beardsley
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told… — Tom Bodett
I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with… — Jeffrey Tate
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God… — Bob Brown
To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we… — Joel Edgerton
As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness. — Harry Frankfurt
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out… — Jay Griffiths
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. — Bob Dylan
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen
True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but… — David R. Brower
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization. — Edward Abbey
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert… — Edward Abbey
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the… — Aldo Leopold
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass… — Thomas Cole
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses. — Lena Headey
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not… — Mo Udall
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night. — Thomas Jefferson
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk

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