Quotes About Wilderness

You may call me Dr. Doolittle. I've sailed through the night and day, in and out of weeks, to where the wild things are and now I'm their private physician

A human being is a morass, a swamp, a jungle.

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.

We walked into the arms of the forest...

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

What I love about elk hunting is its similarities to turkey hunting. When you call to a bull elk, and it comes in ripping things apart and sounding like a herd of buffalo coming at you, it's exciting!

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

What happens in Montana stays in Montana, Glo.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

I hate hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

You have to leave the city of your comfort & go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. -Alan Alda

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.