Quotes About Wilderness

Only those who have learned to live on the land will find sanctuary

But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.

Israel's wandering in the wilderness wasn't just because [God] was angry with them. His continuous moving with them in the wilderness was because He wanted time to get out of them what their years of being slaves had put in them. And the best way to show anyone who you really are is to constantly be in their presence.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

The hunter that travels out into the woods is lost to the world, yet finds himself.

It's a wilderness out there; the normal rules don't apply. Decent, polite people who don't raise their voices from one year's end to the next buy a modem and turn into Mel Gibson on tequila slammers.

The final step into feral is murder. We stand between that and you. We say, when no one else will, There are rules here. There are limits. There are boundaries that don't move.

She had held her whole life, everything she was, as lightly as a wildflower tucked in her hair, to be tossed away at any second as she took off burning streaks down the highway.

Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the heart and spirit from too much of worldly regulations and duties. He is a god of joy and freedom. Any uncultivated, tangled, and primal woodland is very much his domain.

It is while tracking that the hunter exhibits his true skill.

My feet are locked upon the rough bark.It took the whole of CreationTo produce my foot, my each feather:Now I hold Creation in my footOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly—I kill where I please because it is all mine.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

The wolf is living for the earth.

The Snow Leopard's Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk the very same trail. Whether one has been in the business of adventuring, as Thomas McIntyre has, or has enjoyed such adventures from the safety of one's armchair, The Snow Leopard's Tale is a haunting, beautifully written, and thought-provoking tale, as all great parables are.

Nobody needs to control or be controlled by cues and signals all the time; living creatures are not a bunch of machines.

I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

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

The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.