Quotes About Wilderness

The Witcher had no work, for though the Dank Wilderness was so dank it would have been difficult to imagine anything danker, we did not encounter any monsters.

There was a place where hundreds of snakes hissed and squirmed on stones, scraping and rustling their scales.

Old Western Trail.

On the trail all horses are free at night, except the regular night ones, which are used constantly during the entire trip, and under ordinary conditions keep strong and improve in flesh.

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints.

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.

If I could see not one single soul in that wilderness of desolation all around me, then the six of us - mounts and riders, both - could boast amongst us not one soul, either, since all the best religions in the world state categorically that not beasts nor women were equipped with the flimsy, insubstantial things when the good Lord opened the gates of Eden and let Eve and her familiars thumble out.

The tiger sat still as a heraldic beast, in the pact he had made with his ferocity to do me no harm. He was far larger than I could have imagined, from the poor, shabby things I'd seen once, in the Czar's menagerie at Petersburg, the golden fruit of their eyes dimming, withering in the far North of captivity. Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.

Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

More than anything there is the sense of scale: you can fly for hours and hours of Alaska and you look down and all you'll see is forests, lakes and snow-capped mountains, with no sign whatsoever of human beings.

I love putting myself in survival simulation. Whenever I get an off, I often go out for camping, and thanks to my brother who has taught me all the survival skills.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.

the walls of the cabin burst outwards in a sheet of flame. Logs were thrown high into the sky, spinning end over end before they crashed back down to earth

Conan, grim, blood-stained, naked but for a loin-cloth, shackles on his mighty limbs, his blue eyes blazing beneath the tangled black mane which fell over his low broad forehead.

I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.

up in the glade, and notch an arrow.