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Wilder Quotes

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

"The Spiritual Power Of Dance" by Gabrielle Roth, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

Sigurd F. Olson (2012). “Wilderness Days”, p.69, U of Minnesota Press

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

C. S. Lewis (2014). “The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition”, p.156, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.461, e-artnow

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

"Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Micahel Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.