Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old wilderness quotes, wilderness sayings, and wilderness proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.Aldo Leopold
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.David Douglas
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The word ‘wilderness' occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.Rene Dubos
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Wilderness complements and completes civilization. I might say that the existence of wilderness is also a compliment to civilization. Any society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name of civilization.Edward Abbey
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.David Brower
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.Edward Abbey
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Wilderness begins where the road ends; and if the roads never end, there never will be any wilderness.Frank Church
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.Joseph Wood Krutch
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Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.Nick Rahall
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There is no wilderness like a life without friends.Baltasar Gracian
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Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.Roderick Nash
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Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.Nick Rahall
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Muir
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The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.John Muir
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.John Muir
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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.Terry Tempest Williams
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Keep close to nature's heart and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.John Muir
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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.Howard Zahniser
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very diverse. The differences in the product are known as cultures. The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity. In the wilds that gave them birth.Aldo Lepold
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.Thornton Wilder
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”William Cronon
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I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.Everett Ruess
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In the wilderness man learns to have faith in his Creator.Finis Mitchell
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If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was. Harvey Broome
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Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.Aldo Leopold
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The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. Jim Harrison
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.David R. Brower
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The swift metamorphosis and the onward march of civilization, sweeping ever westward and transforming and taming our wilderness, fills us with a strange regret, and we rejoice that parts of that wilderness will yet remain to us unchanged. William S. Bracket