#wilde

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties ↗

— John Muir

#wilderness #love

Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow. It is not a language like Russian or Chinese but it is a language nonetheless, and it is older than the forest. The crows speak it; the dog speaks it; the tiger speaks it, and so do the men--some more fluently than others. ↗

— John Vaillant

#hunting #nature #poaching #russia #tiger

Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence. ↗

— Michael J. Cohen

#creation #dependencies #estrangement #global #greed

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#human spirit #luxury #necessity #spirit #wilderness

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#defense #idea #needs #only #wilderness

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

#books #every #guides #light #me

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #faces #fit #had #me

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. ↗

— Colin Firth

#adrift #america #appealed #because #been

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#along #being #boyhood #brett #career

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#billy #billy wilder #story #tell #told