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It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past — Sunday Adelaja

We know that sometimes the best place to see the stars in all their glory is the wilderness. — Jefferson Bethke

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

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. — Edward Abbey

Likewise he believed that men wandering or lost in the wilderness often reversed that brutal order of life and became noble, wonderful, super-human. — Zane Grey

In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists. — Mason Cooley

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit. — Jake Ducey

Spiritual renewal occurs in the wilderness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Without the plankton the sea would be a barren wilderness — Richard R. Kirby

Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn't on a checklist. — Kat Kruger

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! — Jeremiah

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy. — Horace Kephart

The wilderness leads to wonder of the moment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. — Bob Dylan

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau

Come to the woods, for here is rest. — John Muir

so wondrous wild, the whole might seem
the scenery of a fairy dream — Walter Scott

As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return. — Azadeh Moaveni

David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off.

John Birt: What?

David Frost: He wants the wilderness. — Peter Morgan

The wilderness is a place for spiritual rebirth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. — Nate Lowman

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future. — Aldo Leopold

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential. — Sylvia Earle

All great men and women had experienced times of wilderness,these moments precedes the dawn of self awakening, greatest potential and success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them. — George Eliot

the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And — Alexander McCall Smith

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea. — Stewart Udall

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. — Michael Catt

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! — George Eliot

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. — Edward Abbey

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace. — John Muir

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator — Lailah Gifty Akita

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness. — Mencius

thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell. — Matthew Henry

I'm quite happy being male. The notion of being female scares me to death."
"Why?"
"I'd have to put up with men. — David Robbins

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. — Nancy Gibbs

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist. — Chuck Palahniuk

The wilderness has found us out.
Darkness widens our pupils. — Maryfrances Wagner

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor. — James Russell Lowell

Don't look outside in the world or in wilderness to find the peace, look inside your heart, where it resides. — Debasish Mridha

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom. — Theodore Roosevelt

I found myself daydreaming of homesteading in the wilderness on a remote mountain somewhere. — Gordon Blaine

Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness. — John Muir

When you're out in the wilderness and get back to base camp only to discover sleeping bag turndown service ... .that's no chocolate on the pillow — Josh Stern

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair. — Peter Geye

We are the wilderness within
Screaming out for true expression.
Even when we're sleeping,
There's no escape from this obsession. — Jay Woodman

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness. — Wilbur Smith

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything. — Richelle Mead

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness — Matt Prior

This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure. — Terry Tempest Williams

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). — Henry David Thoreau

Get drunk by drinking the magical beauty and tranquil tonic of nature; get lost in the wilderness. — Debasish Mridha

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land. — Jane Kirkpatrick

The dream world is the last wilderness, vast and unknowable. — J.J. Brown

Institutions train men to be skilled;
the wilderness trains men to become great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings. — Leslie Stephen

Wilderness is not a place of privilege, but rather a place of probity, where the evolutionary processes of life are free to continue. — Terry Tempest Williams

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination. — Daniel J. Rice

Life in the wild, as I'm observing, is about survival as much as pleasure. — Fennel Hudson

Wilderness is the source of what we can imagine and what we cannot - the taproot of consciousness.
It will survive us. — Terry Tempest Williams

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air. — Laline Paull

Why this cult of wilderness? ... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return. — Betty White

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

Wilderness. The word itself is music. — Edward Abbey

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

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season. — Arthur Lismer

My spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. — Terry Tempest Williams

You did not abandon them in the wilderness because of Your great compassion. Nehemiah 9:19 — Beth Moore

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. — Aldo Leopold

In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime. — Emily Dickinson

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. — Wendell Berry

The mountains knew the definition of freedom. They provided a place where he could find his mind. — Daniel J. Rice

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. — Aldo Leopold

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. — Clifton Cameron

16Jesus repeatedly left the crowds, though, stealing away into the wilderness to pray. — Anonymous

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was. — Harvey Broome

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness. — Townsend Whelen

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it. — Judi Bari

And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. — Neal Stephenson

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness — Jim Morrison

In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes when God wishes to activate the position of the believers, He allows them to be trapped in the wilderness — Sunday Adelaja

The wilderness is a test, whether we will walk in the ways of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. — Jim Fowler

YOU ARE THE ONLY FLOWER OF MEDITATION IN THE WILDERNESS. — Blake Crouch

Beauty is the wilderness of sensual perception where we always want to get lost. — Debasish Mridha

If I can't sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf. — Debasish Mridha

You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! — Anne Bronte

Loneliness is the bitter fruit of wilderness. — The Paper Doll

Having our voices heard in the wilderness is akin to sharing our souls. Angelina J. Windsor — Angelina J. Windsor