#wilder

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#ask #because #directions #even #forty

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

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

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bewilderment #characteristic #deep #human #humor

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#any #bewildered #considerable #face #finally

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#ball #bear #film #go #here

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with. ↗

— Maya Lin

#always #american #ate #comfortable #dinner

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#accomplishments #behind #fade #i #life

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home