Wilderness Quotes
The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.
If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.
...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.
Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life’s beauty can find a meaningful life.
In the wilderness, God performs His mighty miracles.
God determine the time and duration in the wilderness for every man.
You are nothing but wilderness. No constraint. No mind.You shout the word—mind, mind, mind—over and over and then you laugh, saying as I live and breathe, a slave by choice.
...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.
The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind.
The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.
In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested.
Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit, " said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.
Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.
There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.
I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.
All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.
Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?
Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.
The wilderness is a place of an encounter with the Creator.
There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.
The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.
I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.
The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.
