Wilderness Quotes

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

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

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

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

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

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

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

It is really not the wilderness that needs management (it has been doing quite well, after all, for a couple of billion years), but people.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.