Quotes About Freedom

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest.

Of all the paths in life you take, make sure a few of them are dirt

Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?

People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.

learn to live like the wild animals

Having escaped restraint, they were, like some people we know of, afraid of their freedom, did not know what to do with it, and seemed glad to get back into the old familiar bondage.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.

I tied a crust of bread to my belt, and with Carlo set out for the upper slopes of the Pilot Peak Ridge, and had a good day, notwithstanding the care of seeking the silly runaways.

We turned and sailed away, joining the outgoing bergs, while gloria in excels is still seemed to be sounding over all the white landscape, and our burning hearts were ready for any fate, feeling that whatever the future might have in store, the treasures we had gain would enrich our lives forever.

You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber-line, but you will see the stars, and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed. or at least in your grave. Keep awake while you may in mountain mansions so rare.

Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

longing for the mountains

take me into the mountains

Anche oggi tempo splendido, una di quelle gloriose giornate della Sierra in cui ci si sente come dissolti, assorbiti, spinti innanzi pulsanti, non si sa dove. La vita non pare né lunga né breve, non ci si preoccupa di risparmiare tempo o di affrettarsi più di quanto facciano alberi e stelle. Questa è la vera libertà, un buon surrogato mortale dell'immortalità.

Aside from mere money profit one would rather herd wolves than sheep.