Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has… — Rene Auberjonois
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field. — Martin Luther
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as… — Edward Dahlberg
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,… — David Foreman
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here… — Stephanie Mills
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly… — William O. Douglas
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as… — Unknown Author
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,… — Wendell Berry
These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person… — Harvey Broome
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage. — David R. Brower
If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow… — Arthur Carhart
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural… — Unknown Author
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round… — David Douglass
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on… — William O. Douglas
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will… — Aldo Leopold
Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. — Aldo Leopold

Who Wrote These Wilderness Quotes

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