Quotes About Wilderness

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.