Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? — Louise Erdrich
When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. — Louise Erdrich
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. — Joseph Conrad
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and… — Dick Francis
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — Jack Kerouac
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart… — Pope Benedict XVI
We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have… — Edward Abbey
Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts! — Rick Riordan
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there… — Amy Carmichael
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated. — Carl Sagan
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two… — Neil Gaiman
...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond...We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse,… — Muriel Barbery
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained… — Cormac McCarthy
I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware… — Edward Abbey
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their… — George Eliot
Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of… — John Steinbeck
The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I… — Michael Ondaatje
This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals — Rick Riordan
Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you. — Vanna Bonta
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson
I am the wilderness lost in man. — Mervyn Peake
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings… — Wendell Berry

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