Gabrielle Roth
Dancer
"Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness."
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Wilderness
125 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls."
Rachel Carson
Biologist, Conservationist, Author
"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Come to the woods, for here is rest."
Thomas Cole
Painter
"None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life."
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"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods."
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"Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good."
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"The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness."
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"If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness."
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"Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you."
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"Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger."
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"Wilderness. The word itself is music."
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"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."
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"One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness."
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"The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods."
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"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
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"We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."
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"The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel."
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"I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving."
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"Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas."
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"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty."
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"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness."
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"You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it."
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"Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force."
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