None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: / The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness

Cherish your wilderness.