Quotes About Wilderness

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

Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.

A township where one primitive forest waves above, while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...

I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her pasture early in the Spring and boldly swims the river, a cold grey tide, twenty-five or thirty rods wide, swollen by the melted snow. It is the Buffalo crossing the Mississippi.

De la literatura sólo nos atrae lo salvaje. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre para lo domesticado.

A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. -

In Literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized.

it is remarkable that the wild apple, which I praise as so spirited and racy when eaten in the fields or woods, being brought into the house, has frequently a harsh and crabbed taste. The Saunter-er's Apple not even the saunterer can eat in the house.

The wildest sound ever heard makes the woods ring far and wide.

Khi s?ng trong r?ng, tôi có nhi?u khách hÆ¡n b?t kì th?i gian nào khác trong ??i tôi. Trong khía c?nh này, b?n bè tôi ???c sàng l?c Ä'Æ¡n thu?n ch? do tôi s?ng cách xa thành ph?.

One large bundle held their all—bed, coffee-mill, looking-glass, hens—all but the cat; she took to the woods and became a wild cat, and, as I learned afterward, trod in a trap set for woodchucks, and so became a dead cat at last.

all good things are wild and free

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.

It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.

Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje

I rejoice that there are owls.

There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the best men, as the Algonquins called them. We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

wasteland resembling those vast areas of Australia where the dodo bird, shunned by other feathered species of the bush, forlornly buries his head in the sand and whistles out the other end.

In glades they meet skull after skull/Where pine-cones lay--the rusted gun,/Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat/And cuddled-up skeleton;/And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,/And comrades lost bemoan:/By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged--/But the Year and the Man were gone. (The Armies of the Wilderness)

We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...