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Wilderness11 quotes
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech. — Freya Stark · 1948All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. — Terry Tempest Williams · 1955All 11 quotes →Nature5 quotes
In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. — Gerard Manley Hopkins · 1918Man and nature2 quotes
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. — John Muir · 1890These are some of the things wilderness can do for us. That is the reason we need to put into effect, for its preservation, some other principle that the principles of exploitation or "usefulness" or even recreation. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. — Wallace Stegner · 1960Solitude2 quotes
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech. — Freya Stark · 1948I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Spending time in nature2 quotes
In Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Civilization1 quote
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851Civilization and nature1 quote
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851Conservation1 quote
These are some of the things wilderness can do for us. That is the reason we need to put into effect, for its preservation, some other principle that the principles of exploitation or "usefulness" or even recreation. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. — Wallace Stegner · 1960Environmental destruction1 quote
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. — Gerard Manley Hopkins · 1918Human nature1 quote
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. — Henry David Thoreau · 1851Power of nature1 quote
All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir · 1869Silence1 quote
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech. — Freya Stark · 1948