Ashes Quote by Dick Francis

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved —…

— Wallace Stegner

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to…

— Clare Vanderpool

There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced…

— Colin Fletcher

“It has happened. It is over. They fled. They mourned. Until grief had turned stony, too, and they came back. Awed by the completeness…

— Susan Sontag

“All had this in common: that if they returned from the Empty Quarter - even though their journey might have taken them only a…

— Clive Barker

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place,…

— Geraldine Brooks

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable,…

— Edward Abbey

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

— Cheryl Strayed

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

— Matt Prior

The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them…

— Liz Kessler

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years…

— Henry David Thoreau

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking…

— Ansel Adams