Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich… — Jeannette Walls
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin… — Wallace Stegner
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put… — Rebecca Solnit
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion… — Wendell Berry
I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of… — Edward Abbey
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are… — Terry Tempest Williams
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for… — Harold Bell Wright
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the… — Wendell Berry
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is… — Ellen Hopkins
It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But… — Alan Moore
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting… — Anne Frank
We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware… — Muriel Barbery
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wilderness. The word itself is music. — Edward Abbey
It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when… — Mercedes Lackey
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold
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… — Henry David Thoreau
...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as… — Ray Bradbury
We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed… — Anne Lamott
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final… — Immanuel Kant
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning… — Jack Kerouac
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance,… — W S Merwin

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