Top 822 Wilderness Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

A road is a dagger placed in the heart of a wilderness.

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat the fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why its good to go outside of the city and the suburbs. Fortunately, there is wilderness just outside the limits of the cities and the suburbs in most of the United States, especially in the West.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

I love going off in the wilderness.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

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

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

The wilderness is infinite in what it offers.

colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

I'm a camper. I love being out in the wilderness.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

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

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

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

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

Cherish your wilderness.

The wilderness needs your whole attention.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

For life is a journey through a wilderness

It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left worth fighting for.

This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.