Quotes About Wilderness

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

The wild animals seemed less predatory to him than people he had known.

Mother Wolf, you called yourself. What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

I lay in bed that night, a first-time drunkard at seven years of age, pondering the punishment I knew would arrive on callused palms. In the forest, as if sensing my plight, wolves howled nocturnal laments. The magnificent lunar lullabies of my lupine brethren wooed me into a deep and cleansing sleep.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.

If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.

I don't like sleeping in the dark jungle by myself.Ren

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Super Bowl Sunday" "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain-and all the children are insane.-" The Doors

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

Like a true nature's childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die

One man gave her water from his skin pouch, which carried with it a faint taste of animal

It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive. Curate that energy, feed it, don't domesticate it, make culture from it. It should be walking alongside you, not slung over your shoulder. You build your structures from its growls.

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.