“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.”
“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”
“He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;Through desert woods and tracts, which seemLike ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.”
“Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.”
“I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a mighty sacred place.”
“Teach me the wilderness simplicity.Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,as the threshold of all that really matters.”