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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

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

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

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

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

Wilderness Translations

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


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