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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness.
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
I am very much a city boy, and I really don't get out into the countryside or the wilderness that much at all.
Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.
You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.
Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
I make the 'New Wilderness' for the drama. I want people to sit on the edge of their chairs. I want them to laugh, smile, cry.
It was so cool to be listening to, I don't know, some Cocteau Twins song while I was running through the Slovakian wilderness.
Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
We as mountaineers have had a leading role in the destruction of the mountain wilderness environment that we practice our sport in.
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.
The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
'Hanna' has grown up in wilderness. It highlights humanness and animal-ness in humans. She has an interesting take on gender and love.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
I met a Swedish single mum called Annalise who is living in the wilderness. Her dilemma is finding enough wood to make a fire to keep warm.
I think true wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there, which is probably why it still exists.
There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.