Wilderness Quotes - page 10

Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?' It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas! (Khushwant Singh)
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The emptied towns and the villages destroyed, they are a wilderness of our making. Yes, war is all of us, and all of us together. View quote
Henri Barbusse
Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. View quote
Isaiah
It's a world where there aren't families. It's the world of a young person going out into the wilderness, cities, and sort of in a way creating a family. You know, it's kind of like... it's not that it's a "goth book," but it's kind of rather the same stuff that makes kids be goths. View quote
William Gibson
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed. View quote
Stanley Kunitz
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. View quote
Gabrielle Roth
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. (Joni Mitchell)
It's the same old wilderness, just no longer up on that hill or around that bend or in the gully. It's the fact that there is no more hill or gully, that the hollow is there and you've got to explore the hollow with faith. View quote
Ken Kesey
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. View quote
Elayne Boosler
Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse. View quote
James Longstreet
In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows: - "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand." - The City's gone, - Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon. We wonder,- and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. View quote
Horace Smith
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good. View quote
Elon Musk
Cadet corps instill discipline in its members, where you are taught basic skills such as survival in the wilderness, unarmed combat, tracking and learning how to strategise. View quote
Joni Madraiwiwi
I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness. View quote
William Stoughton
There is no wilderness like a life without friends. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God. (Guglielmo Marconi)
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. View quote
Francis Bacon
Brought into right relationship with the wilderness ... he would see that his appropriation of earth's resources beyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and beget ultimate loss and poverty for all. View quote
John Muir
Till the wilderness cried aloud, A secret between you two, Between the proud and the proud. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness. View quote
William Bradford