Quotes About Wilderness

The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.

In the wilderness of lifeHappiness is looking for youIn the jungles of dreams and desires, In the beauty of shrubs and flowers, In the span of sadness and kindness. In the deepness of hearts and minds.

The wilderness leads to wonder of the moment.

Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child's purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.

We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival.

It's mostly during times of wilderness experience, that people are willing to accept the lessonsthat wisdom teaches

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

Writing about the futility of trying to force a wolf into a vehicle, Martino describes the final stage of the conflict. The italics are hers: "But if I continue, perhaps muttering 'Get up you lazy old dusty thing,' The wolf grabs my arm in his teeth, snarling, as if to say, Look, move me where I don't want to go, and we're going to have problems. Your problems will be bigger than mine. He then looks at me with a frank arresting stare, the strength of the mountain rumbling in his eyes.

We were both covered in little flecks of wood, leaves, and bark. Steve's hair was unkempt, a couple of his shirt buttons were missing, and his shorts were torn. I thought he was the best-looking man I had ever seen in my life.

God is taking you through a similar wilderness, on your own journey from potential to power, in order to teach you how to wield the sword of His living Word and defeat satan.

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.

I have gone into the waste lonely places

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.