Top 74 Wilderness Of Life Quotes
#1. Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
William Penn
#4. Only those who are eager to get lost in the wilderness of life's beauty can find a meaningful life.
Debasish Mridha
#5. In the wilderness of life
Happiness is looking for you
In the jungles of dreams and desires,
In the beauty of shrubs and flowers,
In the span of sadness and kindness.
In the deepness of hearts and minds.
Debasish Mridha
#6. 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
#7. Wild animals are only wild to save their existence...for their survival; but human animals are wild to do harm to their own species
Munia Khan
#8. Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. The world is so tremendously spectacular that every visual, sense, and sparked connection swells my unrestrained passion for life. I find I feel this the most when I am immersed in nature and sliding into the bloodstream of the wilderness.
Ian Somerhalder
#10. Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
Margaret Murie
#12. So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and tangle, and the path is never clear.
Lauren Oliver
#13. To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness.
Radhe Maa
#14. There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.
Lawrence Anthony
#15. Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence.
Carol Shields
#17. Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost.
Debasish Mridha
#18. 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
#19. Returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.
Daniel J. Rice
#20. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles A. Lindbergh
#21. I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it.
Clifton Cameron
#22. In the life of every Christian, there is a wilderness experience
Sunday Adelaja
#23. To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#24. Wilderness An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. - Howard Zahniser Perhaps
Eric Blehm
#25. This was what most people wanted: to be close to but not part of. They didn't want the fearful unknown of a 'pristine wilderness.' They didn't want a soulless artificial life, either.
Jeff VanderMeer
#26. If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.
Sylvia Dolson
#27. It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past
Sunday Adelaja
#28. You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
Anne Bronte
#29. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam
#30. Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.
Sigurd F. Olson
#31. I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.
Colin Angle
#32. This then will be the shape and the feel of the world: an abandoned shell, signs of old life, curious animals wandering in and out of ruins, the wilderness crowding in, overtaking all human structures and human things.
Ben H. Winters
#33. The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
Leslie Stephen
#34. The greatest wonder of my life is how God feed me in the wilderness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...
John Muir
#36. The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#37. 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
#38. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#39. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It's about bearing one another's burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.
Sheri L. Dew
#40. Only those who live in the wilderness can recognize the central truth of existence, which is that death lives right beside us at all times, as close and as relevant as life itself, and that this reality is nothing to fear but is a sacred truth to be praised.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?
Thor Heyerdahl
#42. A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Howard Zahniser
#43. The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.
Timothy Beal
#44. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Anne Lamott
#45. The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.
Frank Herbert
#46. Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.
Kristen Ashley
#47. Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end up returning to the world in search of the human companionship that always eluded him, even in childhood, even in his own family
Steven Naifeh
#48. Is it possible to preserve the element of Unknown Places in our national life? Is it practicable to do so, without undue loss in economic values? I say 'yes' to both questions. But we must act vigorously and quickly, before the remaining bits of wilderness have disappeared.
Aldo Leopold
#49. Oh, Star of Hope, that shines to
bless The Wanderer through
Life's Wilderness!
Angels of Love - say "Are ye
come to lead the Weary
Wanderer home?
Franchezzo
#50. Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
Bill Mollison
#51. Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
Margot Fonteyn
#52. If we are to have broad-thinking men and women of high mentality, of good physique and with a true perspective on life, we must allow our populace a communion with nature in areas of more or less wilderness condition.
Arthur Carhart
#53. Beauty is the wilderness of sensual perception where we always want to get lost.
Debasish Mridha
#54. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
Galen Rowell
#55. I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
Felicia Day
#56. I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ).
Henry David Thoreau
#57. Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.
Nick Rahall
#58. All that I desire in life are three ...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee.
Roman Payne
#59. The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Likewise he believed that men wandering or lost in the wilderness often reversed that brutal order of life and became noble, wonderful, super-human.
Zane Grey
#61. No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
Hannah
#62. To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
Christopher Alexander
#63. As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.
Daniel J. Rice
#64. Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue.
Terry Tempest Williams
#65. Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.
Theodore Roosevelt
#66. All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.
Joseph Conrad
#67. The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
Jim Fowler
#68. It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
Horace Kephart
#69. I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there.
Wil S. Hylton
#70. I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward
#71. Back in civilization I begin the questioning," wrote Randy. "What to do with life? What kind of life? In wilderness this ceases; the questions aren't answered, they dissolve." BEFORE
Eric Blehm
#73. I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home ... and start creating the world I have seen.
Jean Craighead George
#74. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh
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