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Quotes About Wilderness

Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell Gibbons, eating bark or something?
~ Roddy Piper
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
~ Jim Fowler
Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.
~ Grey Owl
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
~ Carl Safina
When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.
~ Aurora Aksnes
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Nature hates calculators.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
~ Ansel Adams
Nature is nobody's ally.
~ Herman Melville
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked
~ Oscar Wilde
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
~ Margaret Murie
A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
~ Benton MacKaye
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
~ Walt Whitman
Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
~ Khalil Gibran
Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.
~ Luther Standing Bear
More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.
~ Dean Potter
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
~ Luther Standing Bear
It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.
~ David Brower
Nature has no Laws — only habits.
~ Hakim Bey
I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.
~ Lars von Trier
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
~ James F. Cooper
One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature
~ Guido von List
Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.
~ Scott Jurek