Quotes About Wilderness

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.

Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan's physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater.

THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds.

He's rich, Jack muttered to Eliza, or connected with rich persons. Yes—the clothes, the coins ... All fakeable. How do you know him to be rich, then? In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. (Jack Shaftoe and Eliza)

Then — moving as fast as a man could over wet slick tree-roots with one chicken-neck clenched in each fist —

vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.

SHE WILL GATHER ROSES This little girl Was born to gather roses, Wild roses. This little girl Was born to glean the rice, Wild rice. This little girl Was born to pick strawberries, Blueberries, elderberries, All the wild berries. This little girl Was born to gather roses, Wild roses. Tsimshian

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

I go to the wild mountains where I am responsible for myself. Step by step I am making sure that I don't die.

I find peace in the forests and mountains.

I really enjoy my time in Montana.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

The woods were thick with shadowed green, and Rhonda wished she were in them, walking animal trails until they faded into the brush and she was lost, could stay lost for good.

Tarzan is the ultimate male. He swings through trees and carries his woman off into the jungle. He patterns himself after me. She nuzzled his back. He tries.