Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind.
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008 In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
I can take them to doctor appointments, scout meetings, or field trips to the aquarium3, but I'll never go into the wilderness, skewer4 a worm on a hook, reel in5 a fish, and cook it over an open flame on a piece of tin foil6.
John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911 In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.
" With raging and curses, the Devildeparted, and went to seek the oak, wandered in the wilderness for six monthsbefore he found it, and when he returned, all the oaks had in the meantimecovered themselves again with green leaves.
For three days the count had to wander in the wilderness before he could find his way out.
"I am a poor tailor," he answered,"whom night has surprised here in the wilderness, and I earnestlybeg you to take me into your hut until morning.
They run up the mountains and lose their way in the wilderness, and he has to run after them and drive them together again.
For some time they were alone like this in the wilderness.
' Then the girl fell into a deep sleep, and when she awoke she lay on the earth below, and in the midst of a wilderness.
Close by it was a wilderness of trees and thicket; here the garden had been, and had stretched out to a great lake, which was now moorland.
Fata Morgana, the beautiful aerial phenomenon of the wilderness, appeared with hanging gardens and waving forests, and the wonderful cloud called "Lokeman driving his sheep" also was seen.
But this time I happened to see two children playing in this wilderness of sweepings.
This wilderness is still an immense wild heath of marshy ground, about which we can read in the "Official Directory.
