Quotes About Wilderness

William Stegner...coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.

Als Abenteurer habe ich weder gegen die Natur angekämpft noch mich in ihr verloren. Ich habe gelernt, in ihr zu lesen, sie als gegeben zu respektieren und nicht weiter mit dem Leben zu hadern. Damit bin ich zu meinen Erkenntnissen über die Menschennatur gekommen und zu dem Mut, den Sinn in meinem Tun selbst zu definieren. Niemand hat mich dazu gezwungen. Ständig in der Wildnis unterwegs und vor das Nichts gestellt, zwingt uns die Natur zur Besinnung auf uns selbst.

Wild tehdy nevÄ›dÄ›l nic. A to nic naplnil vírou.

PÃ…â"¢ežití v pustinÄ› si žádá vedení a sou?asnÄ› zaÃ…â"¢azení mezi ostatní.

AÃ…Â¥ je bouÃ…â"¢e, nebo sn?ží, ve white-outu, nebo ve stanu, Wild žalu ostatních nepÃ…â"¢izvukuje. Nikdy.

Ich war nie ein Wilder: zwar unangepasst, ein Sucher im Sinne von Geisteshaltung, Ideal, Ästhetik und Neugier. Und ich gehe weiterhin in die Wildnis: um einer gezähmten Welt zu entkommen, der wahren Menschennatur auf der Spur.

The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protected, they had nothing to fear but the one fear; and that struck here and there, never enough at a time to drive them away.They forgot the ways of wild rabbits. They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Richard Adams

We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Malay man-catcher.

One does not meddle lightly with the forces of the forest.

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!