Quotes About Wilderness

In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong—going wrong. The plane didn't land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn't know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we're out here going la-de-da, I've got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries.

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries. He

berries he would have to eat the gut cherries again

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries.

The hatchet. The key to it all. Nothing without the hatchet. Just that would take all his thanks. And

He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada. All

My name is Brian Robeson and I am thirteen years old and I am alone in the north woods of Canada.

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He had done food.

The vast country is still there, but it has somehow been altered by intrusions, peopled to death. It is all gone, all changed, all tamed and pacified and cleaned and boiled and sanitized and made healthy and politically correct.

He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget—expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.

Gary Paulsen

My name is Brian Robeson,' he said. Then he saw that his stew was done, the peach whip almost done, and he waved to it with his hand. 'Would you like something to eat?

Gary Paulsen

the man who has the soul of the wolf knows the self-restraint of the wolf

A person with a clear heart and open mind can experience the wilderness anywhere on earth. It is a quality of one's own consciousness. The planet is a wild place and will always be.

In the Western Hemisphere we have only the tiniest number of buildings that can be called temples or shrines. The temples of our hemisphere will be some of the planet's remaining wilderness areas.

There are paths that can be followed, and there is a path that cannot- it is not a path, it is the wilderness. There is a going but no goer, no destination, only the whole field

Il galateo del mondo selvatico non richiede solo generosità ma una specie di rude e allegra capacità di tollerare i disagi con buon umore, di comprendere la fragilità di tutti e una certa umiltà.

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

I believe rather that when I was alone I felt I had in some fashion lost my individuality; to the thrush and the rabbit I had been not Severian, but Man. The many people who like to be utterly alone, and particularly to be utterly alone in a wilderness, do so, I believe, because they enjoy playing that part. But I wanted to be a particular person again, and so I sought the mirror of other persons, which would show me that I was not as they were.

He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves.