Quotes About Wilderness

Ash tree" in Spanish, Fresno is the closest major city to Yosemite National Park.

The Western hero, subdued by kisses and the mere tease of rope.

She was going to drink after her shift was finished. "That kind of drinking where you make a wilderness and tear a path in. You meet someone else there, deep in the woods. Go home together. Claw your way toward each the through the booze, confusion, misery, horniness.

Warm. Wet. Woman. Tyrel Kincaid listed his needs in that order. He was standing at the end of the planked bar of a miner's saloon in a back-of-nowhere camp

Obey the warning signs; don't go into the wilderness alone; and don't believe for a moment that you are better, stronger, faster, or more nimble than the natural forces around you.

riding in an airboat is like being vaulted onto a plain of ice, an overpowered airplane propeller strapped to your butt.

Nature is only wild to those who seperate themselves from her.

This traditional woman grew up in a world where respect for the animals hunted was of paramount importance. A concept that, in many cases, differentiates the native from the non-native hunter.

using drumming. Once found, the shaman would sing a magic song to hold the caribou in that place until the hunters could intercept them.

The first thing to understand about travel in this environment is that the forest can be your friend; it can supply you with almost everything you need for life if you learn where and how to look. The second thing is that you can be a friend to the forest; if you consider carefully the consequences of your actions, you can learn to harvest resources without causing any harm, sometimes even assisting the natural process of forest growth.

The taiga provides wonderful opportunities for truly long-distance expeditions into areas that are incredibly remote from civilisation. The spiritual reward of such journeys can prove to be transcendental,

It is a skill in its own right, one that requires the highest degree of technical ability, personal honesty and sober thought. Self-delusion and overconfidence can get you killed when travelling in remote wilderness. Long-range

There's no ambient noise, none of the background aural wallpaper that defines life in an urban environment or even in the English countryside. This is the sort of quiet that you only get in truly remote places.

I like camping.

I'm from Canada, so I did a lot of camping and rafting growing up.

Coming to Canada, I'd really like to see Sasquatch.

I don't care much for the cities.

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

I suppose a lot of people don't understand that one of the things that drew me to hunting was the peace and the solitude, the mushy spiritual stuff, strangely enough. The quiet away from 75,000 roaring fans. The fans, that's very wonderful - I get a great charge from that.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

The two things that I miss most when living out of Australia are the bush and the Pacific coast, especially fishing in the surf at night!

Then there were no more houses, just the burnt foothills and the cement ribbon and a sheer drop on the left into the coolness of a nameless canyon, and on the right heat bouncing off the seared clay bank at whose edge a few unbeatable wild flowers clawed and hung on like naughty children who won't go to bed.

The woods were now something fashioned from hopeless dreams, vaulted dark trees so close together their twisted branches seemed woven brown lines inscribed on a black tent, a batik canopy of woeful aspect raised high over- head. There was a sense of ages here; Sean glanced fearfully from side to side, as if something might leap out at him at any turn. The trees

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use. [--] [T]ime spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space—for wilderness and for public space—must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.