Wilderness Quotes

534 Wilderness quotes by 322 unique authors

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that… — Norman Borlaug
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of… — Roger Williams
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy. — Audrey Niffenegger
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by… — Daniel Boone
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I… — Anton Szandor LaVey
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time.… — Elizabeth Smart
Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once… — Genghis Khan
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. — Harvey Broome
Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this… — Takashi Nagai
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it. — Judi Bari
We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness, — Howard Zahniser
By very definition this wilderness is a need. The idea of wilderness as an area without man's influence is man's own concept. Its values are… — Howard Zahniser
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Unknown Author
The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the… — Ansel Adams
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the… — Joanna Murray-Smith
There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking… — Lawrence Anthony
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely… — Lawrence Anthony
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize… — Jim Fowler
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of… — Rebecca Solnit
There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no… — James M. Kouzes
We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in… — William Cronon
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. — Cornel West
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must… — George Eliot
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to… — Unknown Author
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled… — Ambrose Bierce

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