Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful… — Neal A. Maxwell
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. — Louisa May Alcott
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. — Vera Nazarian
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we… — Anne Rice
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these… — Parker J. Palmer
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions… — Thomas Merton
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst… — Cheryl Strayed
All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses… — John Muir
Just because I’m Native American doesn’t mean I can track furniture through the wilderness.” She deepened her voice: “‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged table passed this… — Rick Riordan
Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it… — Aldo Leopold
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling… — Terry Tempest Williams
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.… — Dante Alighieri
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part… — Stanley Kunitz
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake… — Joseph Conrad
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom… — Rabindranath Tagore
Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything. — Richelle Mead
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott
I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness,… — Eugene V. Debs
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! — George Eliot
There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. — Theodore Roosevelt
The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask. — Nancy Newhall
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can… — Wallace Stegner
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us. — Stephen Harper
We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial… — Lewis Thomas
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the… — John Hope Franklin

Who Wrote These Wilderness Quotes

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