X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Wilderness" (448)

Page 3 of 19
Filter & Style
Image
The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
God cannot save them from fools.
John Muir
Image
Wildness is not just the preservation of the world, it is the world
Gary Snyder
Image
... chastity is not given once and for all like a wedding ring that is put on never to be taken off, but is a garden which each day must be weeded, watered, and trimmed anew, or soon there will be only brambles and wilderness.
Joanna Russ
Image
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.
A. B. Simpson
Image
The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.
Ian Somerhalder
Image
The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness his was the sun, hers the moon his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Image
The word wilderness occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
Rene Dubos
Image
What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?
Aldo Leopold
Image
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. Our drive, our ruggedness, our unquenchable optimism and zeal and elan go back to the challenges of the untrammeled wilderness.
Harvey Broome
Image
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
Edward Abbey
Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.
Terry Tempest Williams
Image
Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.
Aldo Leopold
Image
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Image
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
David Wallace
Image
All good things are wild and free.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Image
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.
E. O. Wilson
Image
It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.
Doug Peacock
Image
I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.
Rachel Zucker
Image
The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.
Rebecca Solnit
Image
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.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Previous
Next