All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

- Eskinder Nega

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Havelock Ellis

I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

- Harrison Ford

If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

- George Dyson

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

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

- Gary Paulsen

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

- Garrett Hardin

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

- Frank Grillo

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

- Alan Alda

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

- Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

- Edward Abbey

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

- Deborah Sampson

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

- Donald Hall

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

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

- Charles Lindbergh

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

- Bruce Babbitt

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

- Bob Brown

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