Wilderness Quotes

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

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

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

The wilderness needs your whole attention.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest

The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.

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

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

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

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.