Wilderness Quotes

You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and ...

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subse...

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, inn...

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...

so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream

Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting...

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, t...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of i...

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we ...

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valu...

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain t...

I think people who don't know the woods very well sometimes imagine it as a kind of undifferentiated...

He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over whic...

What are the temples which Roman robbers have reared, - what are the towers in which feudal oppressi...

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to triv...

Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands w...

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true worl...

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comr...

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well ...

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that d...

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

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

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty...

There, about a dozen times during the day, the wind drives over the sky the swollen clouds, which wa...

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creature...

At most, a hundred paces separated him from them. The powerful beast, seeing the riders and horses, ...

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpse...

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. T...

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be...

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-ca...

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness....

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognize...

Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the ...

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in fu...

When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been gr...

I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom an...

I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelmin...

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon ...

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilder...

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv...

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...

Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European,...