Quotes About Wilderness

I like the outdoors.

I do love the outdoor. Love love the outdoors, fishing and hunting and that kind of thing.

Montreal is not what I'm used to. I'm used to big mountains and the outdoors. I'm not much of a city guy.

Now, I underline - underline, underline, underline - nobody loves the outdoors as much as me. Nobody loves water as much as me.

I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.

I like out, I like the outside world.

My background is getting into the kinds of places where outsiders don't normally go, with enough energy left to put a line in the water.

One place that I have very strong memories of is the Congo. That's somewhere I've been to four times. It's not a place where normally outsiders go, which is what makes it very special.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.

The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forst. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: 'Where are you off to?' 'I don't know,' Snufkin replied. The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him.

The presence of [precious] materials in the wilderness can be explained only as a result of the so-called plundering of the Egyptians (Ex. 12:33-35). In this way God provided the materials for his own house.

Vatnajökull,

She lifted her head, breathing in the wild sea air.

Just fly away. Hide. Try to get back to the rainforest.

But he finally caught and killed some kind of large, warty pig with leathery skin,

she said. "Hilarious. As if you'd have survived this long out here. Your minders

And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees – why, there might be owls.

Wildness is not found but revealed.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

What he liked best was taking things apart, even books, even the Bible. He said the Bible was like an owner's guide, a repair manual to an unfinished invention. He also said the Bible was a wilderness. It was one of Father's theories that there were parts of the Bible the no one had ever read, just as there were parts of the world where no one had ever set foot.

The only sound was birdsong, soon overwhelmed by the headlong buzz of two Border Patrol officers on all-terrain vehicles, zipping past me much too fast on the flat paths, their big wheels tossing up damp sand.

after the town of Tehuacán into the heights of the rocky past, not a person in sight, the summits of these nameless mountains looking scalded and bare and terrifying in their flinty emptiness.

bleak and beautiful expanse of lifeless isolation.