#wilde

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#nature #wilderness #nature

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #wilderness #nature

Nothing truly wild is unclean. ↗

— John Muir

#nature #sierra-mountains #wilderness #nature

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#close #evolution #guesses #heart #mind

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #insult

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ↗

— Walt Disney

#formal #gardens #guess #i #instinct