Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation… — Marilynne Robinson
In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you… — Daniel Handler
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one… — Mahatma Gandhi
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are… — Charles Dickens
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The… — M. Scott Peck
Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. — Edward Abbey
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming… — Virginia Woolf
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. — John F. Kennedy
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a… — Marguerite Duras
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity... — John Muir
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties — John Muir
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
All good things are wild and free. — Henry David Thoreau
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the… — Marilynne Robinson
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that… — Theodore Roosevelt
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness… — Aldo Leopold
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows… — Loren Eiseley
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,… — Edward Abbey
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs

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