Bogs Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The wild. I have drunk it, deep and raw, and heard it's primal, unforgettable roar. We know it in our dreams, when our mind…

— Jay Griffiths

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

— Sayo Masuda

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into…

— Henry David Thoreau

“God’s wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations…

— John Muir

“There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his…

— Daniel J. Rice

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

— Jan L. Richardson