Wilderness Quotes
We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.
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.
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.
It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.
A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.
It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow.
Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.
