Top Wilderness Quotes
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
William H. Wharton
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo
Henry David Thoreau 
Edward Abbey 
John Strachan 
George Aiken 
John Muir 
Hubert H. Humphrey 
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey 
87% of people like this quote
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney
64% of people like this quote
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann
61% of people like this quote
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
William H. Wharton
60% of people like this quote
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Kate DiCamillo
59% of people like this quote
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Thomas Cole
59% of people like this quote
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.
Steve Mann
57% of people like this quote
I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.
Michael K. Simpson
56% of people like this quote
Popular Wilderness Authors
Henry David ThoreauRobert Louis StevensonJames Russell LowellWalt DisneyHubert H. HumphreyWalter LippmannHenry Ellis TacitusMichael PollanMichael K. SimpsonAlan AldaDan LipinskiEdward AbbeyGarrett HardinHerbert Croly
Bruce BabbittJohn StrachanSteve MartinKate DiCamilloMary A. WardNick RahallRene AuberjonoisJames LongstreetJohn MuirAustin O'MalleyJames H. BreastedCharles LindberghMatthew FoxElayne BooslerMark Udall
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