Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

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

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

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

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.


It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

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

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

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