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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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"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such."
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"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."
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"Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth."
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"Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing"
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"The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time."
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"There is no wilderness like a life without friends."
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"Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it."
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"...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."
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"Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime."
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"Wilderness begins in the human mind."
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"If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness."
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"The only thing left worth saving is wilderness."
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"You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated."
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"Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me."
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"It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe."
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