Wilderness Quotes

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

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

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

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.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.