“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see.”
“I tried to break the spell — the heavy, mute spell of the wilderness — that seemed to draw him to its pitiless breast by the awakening of forgotten and brutal instincts, by the memory of gratified and monstrous passions.”
“Many of the attributes most distinctive of America and Americans are the impress of the wilderness. … Shall we now exterminate this thing that made us Americans?”
“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.”
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Wilderness é um drama britânico de 1996 dirigido por Ben Bolt. É baseado em um romance de 1991 de mesmo nome de Dennis Danvers. A série de terror foi produzida por Red Rooster Film & Television Entertainment em associação com Carlton Television para a rede ITV.
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