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Quotes About Wilderness

Rolling in a patch of wild garlic
~ Erin Hunter
Welcome, Wind Runner.
~ Erin Hunter
Gray Wing dreamed.
~ Erin Hunter
Toklo!" Lusa shrieked. "Do something! They're going to kill Taqqiq!" We should be so lucky, Toklo thought
~ Erin Hunter
No kit is too young to learn good hunting skills." Gray
~ Erin Hunter
neatly tucking into a mouse
~ Erin Hunter
Sandstorm shrugged. "I keep telling you, Twolegs are crazy.
~ Erin Hunter
Just then the beaver reared up and flicked Lionblaze off;
~ Erin Hunter
the cats out of the camp.
~ Erin Hunter
I'll go and find us some fresh
~ Erin Hunter
Perhaps she also hoped that Tigerstar would invite her to be his mate and share the rule of the forest.
~ Erin Hunter
She was answered only by the hoot of an owl and the bark of a fox. Death panted hard on her paws, drawing closer with every footfall, and for all her twisting and turning, Leafpaw knew that there was no escape.
~ Erin Hunter
Flight from BloodClan
~ Erin Hunter
Hills, oak woods for shelter, running streams.
~ Erin Hunter
The earth was darker on this side of the Thunderpath and the grass felt coarser underpaw. As they approached the foot of Highstones, the grass gave way to bare, rocky soil, dotted with patches of heather. The land sloped up now, toward the sky. Craggy rocks topped the slope, blazing orange in the sun.
~ Erin Hunter
The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.
~ Ernest Cline
Ernest Thompson Seton
~ Sweepstakes
Un espíritu terrible ha borrado aquí todas las cosas superfluas y creado un trasfondo digno del cuadro que acabo de imaginar. Aquí el ser humano vuelve a convertirse necesariamente en un fragmento de la Naturaleza, que lo somete a sus leyes inescrutables y lo utiliza como una criatura hecha de sangre y músculos, de garras y dientes.
~ Ernst Junger
We do not qualify as biblical simply by quoting the Bible. We are biblical only when we share life in the wilderness with those who are tempted and fall, when we carry the cross of Jesus, and when we love extravagantly in Jesus's name.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I'll shower blessings on the pilgrims who come here, and give supper to those who arrive hungry." The devout mind goes back to those years in the wilderness when God gave water from the rock, manna from the ground and quail from the skies, and fashions a hope for abundant, eternal providence.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The prayer of David traditionally assigned to this story is Psalm 57. While there are lines in that psalm that convey David's fugitive state at the time, its overwhelming impression is of energetic and ebullient praise of God. This means that while Saul was the occasion for David's being in the wilderness, Saul neither defined nor dominated the wilderness. The wilderness was full of God, not Saul.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
If this is the 'Green Hell' of the Amazon, then hell is where I belong," said Maia.
~ Eva Ibbotson
The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On
~ Evan S. Connell
I'm most fascinated by remote places and lonely islands, which are also the hardest places to reach.
~ Josh Gates