The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

I love going off in the wilderness.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

I'm a camper. I love being out in the wilderness.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.