Quotes about Wilderness
Nature is the realm of the unspeakable. It has no voice of its own, and nothing to say. We experience the unspeakability of nature as its utter indifference to human culture.
— James Carse
and he was as ready for mischief as a wilderness of monkeys.
— Dorothy Sayers
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature hates calculators.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
— Washington Irving
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.
— Cormac McCarthy
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.
— Roger Williams
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
— Amy Carmichael
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
— Martin Luther