Quotes About Wilderness

The way to tame a wild thing is not to pursue it, but to make it pursue you. This is the way Merlins have always been brought to heel.

Cold dark deep and absolutely clear,element bearable to no mortal,to fish and to seals…

Las criaturas salvajes siempre tienen secretos, cosas que no pueden compartir porque no saben cómo hacerlo. Angelina tenía montones de secretos y ellos la arrastraban.

The tarn was surrounded by tough alpine grasses and thorn bushes with berries of candy pink and cough-drop red. At that camp the party's fire looked choked and small. And when the moon came out its light shone on and through the blue ice cliffs fastened to the black rock faces of surrounding mountains. The night breeze came as an icy downdraught carrying a scent of hostile nothingness, as if it blew all the way from the stars.

These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.

on top of a twelve-thousand-foot-high mountain, where, in fact, there were no trees—just scrub and, somewhat incongruously, a dozen or so cows, eyeing us suspiciously.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone, in his own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

Al divorciarnos de la naturaleza, los hombres hemos perdido la capacidad de consuelo frente al horror que acecha ahí afuera.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.

Pakanka užeiti ? klajojant? žv?ryn?, kad suprastume, kokie mes barbarai. Nuožmus laukinis žv?ris ne tas, kuris uždarytas narve, o tas, kuris stovi prie jo.

I wish him luck,' said Robin, voicing his thoughts, 'and may he live in the Chase for years and years and never be caught.

Masses of red dogwood, guelder-roses, and privet hemmed them in, whilst overhead the dark tassels of the firs almost shut out the greying dawn. Not far from the stream, sprawled down the bank, was a giant Scots pine. It had torn up much of the bank in its fall, and the roots appeared in the half-darkness like the limbs of some long-dead monster.

For government; let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some counsel; and let them have commission to exercise martial laws, with some limitation. And above all, let men make that profit, of being in the wilderness, as they have God always, and his service, before their eyes.

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

I basically grew up in the backwoods.

If only you would listen to his voice today! The Lord says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness." —Psalm 95:7–8

This is the final book about Brian

The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.