Quotes About Wilderness

The outdoors is one of the safest places you can be--provided that you've got a little bit of know-how and a lot of common sense.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.

I would value you less if I were not a refugee your presence changes my wilderness to a garden (From the poem To My Children)

I didn't hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?

If you can't fuck it, eat it or use it for a weapon--kill it.

Electric, wild, one foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out. And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. (Mac about Barrons)

Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

I welcome her feral nature.

We are all raccoon-drunk on moonlight and bloodshed and the heady, underblossom smell of the forest.

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Nicht wahr, Pitt Holbers, altes Coon?

Stay green, stay in the woods, and stay safe.

Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

I live in one of the best places, bar none, to appreciate the wild natural environment. I also live in one of the most politically difficult places to work on its behalf: Alaska.

What if . . . you come to the wild and discover that it is not wild at all? What if half the world is here before you?

She talks with an accent of savage seas. Her breathing is the breath of the wilderness, she has loved with a passion that makes her blanch, which she never mentions and which would be like the map of another star if she told us.

Vivo in una solitudine selvaggia e raffinata, misera e opulenta, dove le passioni ardono s'inceneriscono riardono incessantemente.

The Call of the Wild

The things we do to eat! Running from scorpions the size of small dogs, dodging 10 foot long rattlesnakes and squashing monster spiders - all in a days work

Our survival as spiritual beings depends upon our ability to open our wild hearts in love and resonance with all of nature.

Killt him a b'ar when he was only three.

The exquisite sight, sound, and smell of wilderness is many times more powerful if it is earned through physical achievement, if it comes at the end of a long and fatiguing trip for which vigorous good health is necessary. Practically speaking, this means that no one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.