America Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

“It’s hard not to smile when you hear that American frontiersman Daniel Boone once insisted, “I have never been lost, but I will admit…

— Valerie Young

“Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was…

— Daniel Boone

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel…

— Peter Matthiessen

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

— T. J. Stiles

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I remember the Hunt from ten years ago. How for months afterward I didn’t dare fall asleep because of the nightmares that would invade…

— Andrew Fukuda

Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

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

“The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives…

— Cormac McCarthy

“And sleep that night on the cold plains of a foreign land, forty-six men wrapped in their blankets under the selfsame stars, the prairie…

— Cormac McCarthy

“This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my…

— William Stafford