Wilderness Quotes

Wilderness Quotes

Aldo Leopold

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Henry David Thoreau

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so ...

Edward Abbey

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit

Elayne Boosler

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness ...

Hubert H. Humphrey

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved ...

Archibald Macleish

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with ...

Henry David Thoreau

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

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