Alone Wilderness Quotes

#1. No more alone through the world's wilderness,
Although I trod the paths of high intent,
I journeyed now: no more companionless

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy.

Muriel Barbery

#3. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

#4. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

Olaus Murie

#5. Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness offered not only adventure but also therapy and peace: a place to be alone with your thoughts.

Jennifer Pharr Davis

#6. It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Wanda Koop

#7. No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

Townsend Whelen

#8. Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.

Childhood is a wilderness.

Aspen Matis

#9. A voice alone in the wilderness is a beautiful thing.

John Arnold

#10. All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.

William Cullen Bryant

#11. I didn't know how living outdoors and sleeping on the ground in a tent each night and walking alone through the wilderness all day almost every day had come to feel like my normal life, but it had. It was the idea of not doing it that scared me.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

Wendell Berry

#13. But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Joseph Conrad

#14. You, I now see," he said, "show your love like Christians indeed one to another but we let one another lie and die like dogs.

Thomas J. Fleming

#15. Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.

Daniel J. Rice

#16. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.

Thaddeus Mason Harris

#17. The next "I will" is in John, fourteenth chapter, verse eighteen: "I will not leave you comfortless." To me it is a sweet thought that Christ has not left us alone in this dark wilderness here below. Although

D.L. Moody

#18. I just like to think about what I'm reading. Don't you?" "I don't read very well. So I don't think I think very well either." Galinda smiled. "I dress to kill, though.

Gregory Maguire

#19. She had the top down and I could smell everything in those woods, and you know what an old fine smell that is, like something which has been mostly left alone and is not much troubled.
("Mrs. Todd's Shortcut")

Stephen King

#20. It would be a hard life, but it would be theirs alone. Here at the world's edge, far from everything familiar and safe, they would build a new home in the wilderness and do it as partners.

Eowyn Ivey

#21. There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned

Stephen Vincent Benet

#22. No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

Frank Norris

#23. Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live ... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Joe Manchin

#24. When wounds are healed by love,
The scars are beautiful.

David Bowles

#25. I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

Sarah Bird

#26. We shouldn't go to the Bible to back up what we believe. We should look to the Bible to determine what we believe.

Jayce O'Neal

#27. The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

Daniel J. Rice

#28. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

David Ginola

#29. Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

P.Sainath

#30. Garner knowledge, by any means possible

Jacqueline Carey

#31. Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Robert Anderson

#32. 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.

John Muir

#33. I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do ... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

David M. Brown

#34. He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Dag Hammarskjold

#35. If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

George Dyson

#36. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

#37. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.

Harold Bell Wright

#38. To travel alone is risky business, especially into a wilderness; equally risky is to have dreams and not follow them.

Robert F. Perkins

#39. Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#40. Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

Richard Henry Horne

#41. One. Two. Three. Blink.

Jessica Brody

#42. It is you I have been able to love, you alone in all the world. You can have no idea of what that means. It means a spring in the desert, a blossoming tree in the wilderness.

Hermann Hesse