Wilder Quotes

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. - Thornton Wilder

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. - Bible

Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. - Bible

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, / Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: / When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. - Bible

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. - Thornton Wilder

When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness. - John James Audubon

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. - Thornton Wilder

When you look at the mosaic of fires that have burned over the last 20 years, it's probably very similar to what occurred in the 1800s. Not a whole lot of fires occurred in the wilderness from 1929 to 1985. - Steve Wirt