#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

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

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

— Charles Lindbergh

#accomplishments #behind #fade #i #life

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia. ↗

— Noah Taylor

#bush #definitely #feel #home #i

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

#developers #home #i #into #nothing

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

— Bruce Babbitt

#goes #like #living #mirrors #unchallenged

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life. ↗

— Thomas Cole

#hand #how #know #life #man

The new dam, of course, will improve things. If ever filled it will back water to within sight of the Bridge, transforming what was formerly an adventure into a routine motorboat excursion. Those who see it then will not understand that half the beauty of Rainbow Bridge lay in its remoteness, its relative difficulty of access, and in the wilderness surrounding it, of which it was an integral part. When these aspects are removed the Bridge will be no more than an isolated geological oddity, an extension of that museumlike diorama to which industrial tourism tends to reduce the natural world. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#wilderness #beauty

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. ↗

— George Aiken

#felt #found #i #need #often

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#vision #wilderness #love