#wilderness

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#goes #like #living #mirrors #unchallenged

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. ↗

— Clifton Cameron

#life

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. ↗

— Jim Kjelgaard

#dogs #wilderness #men

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. ↗

— John Muir

#john-muir #nature #wilderness #change

To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad? ↗

— Edward Abbey

#edward-abbey #fear #freedom #the-monkey-wrench-gang #wilderness

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#depths #explore #glories #go #into

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

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#discovering #fashion #find #finding #interested

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#land #lies #other #promised #promised land