368 Quotes About Wilderness

I'm primarily concerned with what happens inside a person when they encounter the mountains. When you climb a mountain, you come back down as a different person. We don't change the mountain by climbing it; we ourselves change.

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

The old school of thought would have you believe that you'd be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn't what being in nature is all about. Rather, it's about feeling free, unbounded, shedding the distractions and barriers of our civilization—not bringing them with us.

Wild spirits are often born in a cage, which disappears if and when they learn to handle their wild energies.

Despite all this, the wilderness calls to me more strongly with each passing year. Those distant mountains, always lingering in my peripheral vision, and the ancient forests. Immortal lungs of the earth.

...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.

He could not breathe freely unless the land spread open in front of him. There were no awkward questions, no uncomfortable demands here, only the sky and the soil and the steady beat of hooves and heart in tandem.

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.