Folly Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need…

— Lewis Carroll

Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone…will furnish us with a number of very important uses…If we are wise,…

— Olaus Murie

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be…

— Frank Borman

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked.…

— Paul McAuley

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do…

— Janet Frame

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

— Mark Twain

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller…

— Oliver Goldsmith

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

— Mark Twain

Since I was a child, I was always wondering why people were living in such conditions while enormous lands were empty.

— Jovenel Moise