Quotes About Wilderness

It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

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

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

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.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Wolves ... are a balance wheel of nature.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.