Definition of Wilderness

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Wilderness Translations

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

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