Wilderness Quotes
Powdered donuts," Tyson said earnestly. "I will look for powdered donuts in the wilderness." He headed outside and started calling, "Here, donuts!
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.
Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.
I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, it’s about the people.
Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.
...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.
so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.
I wish my whispers are heard and requited as a storm... Because, the storm is that keeps me alive!
Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost.
Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.
Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti it is the land of our youth.
It was like hiking into a Hemingway story everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.
You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
Chaos, leave me never, keep me wildand keep me freeso that mybrokenness will be, the only beautythe world will see.
A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans.
In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.
Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
