Wilderness Quotes

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

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

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

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

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

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


We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

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

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

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.

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

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.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

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

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.