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“Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.”

Men Needs Should Mind Soul Nature Towns Silent Woods Wilderness Echoes

Author:John Updike

“We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.”

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Author:B. W. Powe

“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?”

Source: The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections

“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”

Eye Lost Sea Huge Fool Mass Sight Towns Wide London Smoke Dirty Wilderness Crowns Sail Coal Bricks Here And There Caps Shipping Tiptoes Masts Peeping Canopy Steeples

Author:Lord Byron

“I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."”

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Author:Cheryl Strayed

“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.”

Stills Government Force Struggle Four Months Towns Iraq Desert Thirty Wilderness Devices Mexico September Eastern Lit Facility Blast Oaks Explosives Acres Tennessee Ridges New Mexico

Author:George Will

“I am actually looking most forward to seeing the country again. It's a wonderful town and the wilderness around there is beautiful. The falls there were an inspiration in my book My Side of the Mountain”

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Author:Jean Craighead George

“It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.”

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Author:Tom Bodett

“what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything.”

Animal Rooms Five Modern Dangerous Towns Woods Miles Wilderness Solitary Crowded Exotic Zoos Modern Day Exotic Animals

Book:The Age of Missing Information

Source: The Age of Missing Information

“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.”

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Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“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.”

Knows Men Way Firsts Spirit Names Quality Building Roots Towns Objectives Wilderness Timeless Precise Criteria

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.”

Play Mother Dog Daughter Towns Access Hills Staying Wilderness My Daughter Stay Strong Acres

Author:Rene Auberjonois

“Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness is given over to dreams of profit, maybe it will be love, finally, love for the land for its own sake and for what it holds of beauty and joy and spiritual redemption that will make [wilderness] not a battlefield but a revelation.”

Littles Dream Lasts Spiritual Joy Given Love Is Powerful Land Tools Towns Sake Profit Redemption Revelations Wilderness Battlefields Wildness Little Towns

Author:T. H. Watkins