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Wilderness Quotes - Page 5

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

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.1698, e-artnow

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.87, Trajectory Inc

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.283, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA