Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the… — Edwin Way Teale
If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things. — George Dyson
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. — Elon Musk
Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx. — P.J. O'Rourke
I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying… — Wil S. Hylton
When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing material. There is no texture,… — Leslie Cockburn
Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land. — John Bytheway
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. — Nate Lowman
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing nations:… — Mark Shand
The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought… — John Yarmuth
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the… — John James Audubon
I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and… — Robert Powell
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care… — Pico Iyer
I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and… — Chelsea Cain
I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. — Steve Martin
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. — Steve McQueen
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its… — Matthew Fox
I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away. — Michael K. Simpson
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this… — Hugh Miller
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of… — James Longstreet
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. — George Aiken
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and… — Francis Bacon
...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of… — Jack Kerouac

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