Quotes about Wilderness

Even in the wilderness with scarce resources, God mandates a pause for Sabbath for the community:

First, that wherever you live, it is probably Egypt; second, that there is a better place, a world more attractive, a promised land; and third, that "the way to the land is through the wilderness." There is no way to get from here to there except by joining together and marching.

Don't get a bad attitude like they did back in the wilderness, or you're going to be joining them.

Nature is the realm of the unspeakable. It has no voice of its own, and nothing to say. We experience the unspeakability of nature as its utter indifference to human culture.

and he was as ready for mischief as a wilderness of monkeys.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

Nature hates calculators.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.