Quotes About Wilderness

Bloody dogs," Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. "Safety on?" Dad always asked. "Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat's testicle.

I landed on a carpet of moss and looked up at pieces of torn sky breaking through a dense roof of foliage.

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

The fall air pokes Konrad like the needles of evergreens. He feels snappish and half wild.

Insulate yourself with friends and seek out wild places.

The only species of animal that tries to get by in the wilderness without interspecific tact of communication is the human critter.

levels that occurred deep within forests.

There are no major cities or resorts

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.

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

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

16Then justice shall abide in the wilderness And righteousness shall dwell on the farm land. 17For the work of righteousness shall be peace, And the effect of righteousness, calm and confidence forever.

animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious

that there is no more terrible thing than to live and have one's being under the shadow of a man-eater

We only meet the God within our true selves through suffering. We seek the wilderness because in this solitude we can hear ourselves more clearly.

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.… It is enough that I am surrounded by beauty." Ruess scaled remote canyons,

The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.

Franchement vu la façon dont j'ai été traitée par les gens dits "civilisés", il me tarde finalement d'aller vivre chez les sauvages.