Wilderness Quotes - Page 4
Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing
John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.
Henry Abbey, “Emmanuel”
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
Speech of the British chieftain Calgacus, before the battle of Mons Graupius, referring to the Romans. Agricola, ch.30.
J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow
All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.
John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more”, p.739, e-artnow
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.414, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.84, Ultramarine Publishing
Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion
Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.78, Penguin
I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.165, Delphi Classics