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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

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.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

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.

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

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. The word itself is music.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

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.

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

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

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.