Quotes About Wilderness

Suddenly, just as the rain began to fall in earnest, he sat down and howled.

middle of a vast continent, somewhere near the undefined

It was a beautiful place - wild, untouched, above all untouched, with an alien, disturbing, secret loveliness. And it kept its secret. I'd fins myself thinking, 'What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing'.

I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to parts of Coulibri that I had not seen, where there was no road, no path, no track. And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think 'It's better than people.' Black ants or red ones, tall nests swarming with white ants, rain that soaked me to the skin - once I saw a snake. All better than people. Better, better, better than people.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

My own heart, like this wild place, has never been visited, and I do not know whether it could sustain life.

I could have been a priest instead of a prophet. The priest has a book with the words set out. Old words, known words, words of power. Words that are always on the surface. Words for every occasion. The words work. They do what they're supposed to do; comfort and discipline. The prophet has no book. The prophet is a voice that cries in the wilderness, full of sounds that do not always set into meaning. The prophets cry out because they are troubled by demons.

Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

I do as much outdoor stuff as I can. What I've done is I bought a house in the middle of Hollywood, but I live in the forest. I literally live in an area that looks kind of like where I camped as a kid, but in the middle of Hollywood. It's called Laurel Canyon.

My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.

I love to be outdoors.

I'm a man's man. I go out climbing and live outdoors.

I just love the outdoors!

I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

Next to acting, being in the great outdoors is my biggest passion.

Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.

I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I love being outdoors and trekking around.

I like to fish. I love to stay outdoors.