Quotes About Wilderness

It was the way I'd felt a few times in the forest or in the mountains—those moments when you just suddenly feel how alive everything around you is, and you can almost breathe in the energy of every humming insect, flying bird, windblown tree

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Even an imbecile knows that you never come between a grizzly - bear mama and her cub.

In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!

part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having spent ten years with the wolves behind some farmhouse, living off scraps and reveling in the pure air like a half–girl Mowgli, half–woman Thoreau.

those who live by the law of the jungle must be ready to die by the law of the jungle.

Hanuman stands on the frontier between the wilderness and the settlement, between the animal and the human world, and has the power to turn the negative into positive, poison into medicine.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

The prolonged solitary exposure to the bush that makes some people odd or crazy might in others bring the active and contemplative life into perfect harmony or grace.

The bush is a home for martyrs.

The Jungle Creed says the Strong must Feed on any Prey at Hand, I was Branded a Beast and Sat at a Feast before I was a Man.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.