Quotes and Sayings About Wilderness

You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.
-- Alastair Humphreys

#Needs #Sides #Wilderness

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Impossible #Wilderness #Creation

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Nature #Environmental #Wilderness

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Lying #Wilderness #Values

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
-- Aldo Leopold

#Lilies #Golden #Wilderness

Thomson sought the wilderness, never seeking to tame it, but only to draw from it, its magic of tangle and season.
-- Arthur Lismer

#Nature #Magic #Wilderness

There was only the cemetery itself, spread out in the moonlight like a soft grey hallucination, a stony wilderness of Victorian melancholy.
-- Audrey Niffenegger

#Hallucinations #Wilderness #Melancholy

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.
-- Betty White

#Beautiful #Return #Wilderness

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.
-- Bruce Babbitt

#Mirrors #Facts #Wilderness

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Home #Wilderness #Thousand

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.
-- Cheryl Strayed

#Woods #Way #Wilderness

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.
-- Christopher Cokinos

#Wilderness #Wander

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#Understanding #Wilderness #Disappear

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
-- Cotton Mather

#Land #Wilderness #Passing

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.
-- David R. Brower

#World #Cages #Wilderness

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.
-- David R. Brower

#Nature #Real #Wilderness

It ain’t wilderness unless there’s a critter out there that can kill you and eat you.
-- Doug Peacock

#Wilderness #Critters

Wilderness. The word itself is music.
-- Edward Abbey

#Wilderness

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
-- Edward Abbey

#Machines #Wilderness #Left Behind

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
-- Edward Abbey

#Smell #Taste #Wilderness

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
-- Eskinder Nega

#Moral #Forget #Wilderness

I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is bestI'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.
-- Everett Ruess

#Thinking #Fascination #Wilderness

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.
-- Everett Ruess

#Tired #Vagrants #Wilderness

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
-- Frank Norris

#World #Wilderness #All Alone

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
-- Gabrielle Roth

#Feet #Wilderness #Miles

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
-- Gary Snyder

#World #Wilderness #Preservation

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
-- George Eliot

#Best Friend #Spring #Wilderness

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
-- Hannah

#World #Wilderness #Hermits

As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
-- Harry Frankfurt

#Philosopher #Wilderness

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

-- Harvey Broome

#America #Wilderness #Capacity