“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”

“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“Music means itself.”

Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) austrian musician and musicologist

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

“It's not the words but the music that counts.”

Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Music is love in search of a word.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs —
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another’s mind.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“Christ of His gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist