Quotes About Wilderness

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Bear hunting? Come on up and we'll fix you up, you betcha. Just be sure you bring some hunting buddies with you, preferably fat ones who can't run as fast as you.

Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)

I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator

On these Andean mountains the southern beech has views over hundreds of kilometres of glaciated wilderness, only marginally more hospitable than Antarctica.

As far as I could tell, Mount Sherman had no ego, no desire to create its own destiny. It was surrendered, as all of nature is surrendered. The wilderness gives us that example continually.

Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.

Thus among the Carrier Indians 33 when a man wants to become a Lulem, or Bear, however cold the season, he tears off his clothes, puts on a bearskin and dashes into the woods, where he will stay for three or four days.

There were nights when, lying awake on the fringes of Derian's latest encampment and invigorated by the coolness that came with the dark, she fought back the urge to get up and go just a bit farther. When the wolf-woman slept, she dreamed of her impatience.

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.