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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
Mary Oliver
Born: Sep 10, 1935

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I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. Anne Frank
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell
Experience Worth Thorn Wilderness Warning Whole
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. John Muir
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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
Best Travel World Our Wilderness Find Friend Travelers Travels Honest
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
You Yourself Wonderful Will Wilderness City Intuition Comfort Leave Go Discover Your
If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation. Marcus Garvey
You Injustice Generation Enemy Dangerous Will Wilderness Reckon John More Only Could Know Greater Baptist Appear Whom Present
Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land. Joyce Meyer
God Complaining Complain Wilderness Entered Promised Promised Land Obeyed Could Years Just Land Forty Forty Years Wasted Murmuring
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. Edward Abbey
Needs Defense Wilderness Only Idea Defenders
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. Tacitus
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir
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