Definition of Wilderness

Wilderness

A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

A disorderly or neglected place.

Quality or state of being wild; wildness.

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Wilderness Quotations

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau

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

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
John Muir

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
Christopher Alexander

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.
Steve Martin

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann

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

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 creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

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

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
Michael Pollan

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

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
James Longstreet

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley

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

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary A. Ward

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.
Michael K. Simpson

When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Matthew Fox

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
John Strachan

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Wilderness Translations

wilderness in German is Wildnis
wilderness in Italian is luogo selvaggio
wilderness in Spanish is fragosidad

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