Top 25 Wilderness Quotes of 125 - Page 2

John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

Lois Crisler

Wildlife, Wilderness, Scenery

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

Harvey Broome

Forever, World, Wilderness

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

Gary Snyder

World, Wilderness, Preservation

Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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

Edward Abbey

Smell, Taste, Wilderness

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.59, Macmillan

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Henry David Thoreau

Dead Poets Society, Transcendentalism, Wilderness

"Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness

Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Carl Sandburg

Let It Go, Wilderness

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

Roderick Nash

Feelings, Wilderness

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

Cheryl Strayed

Woods, Way, Wilderness

Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

Theodore Roosevelt

Lying, Asking, Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.115, Cambria Press

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Edward Abbey

Travel, Needs, Wilderness

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

Lonely, Wilderness, Greater

Theodore Roosevelt (1990). “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter”, p.204, Stackpole Books

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.

Roderick Nash

Opportunity, Wilderness

Roderick Frazier Nash (2014). “Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition”, p.262, Yale University Press

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

Paul P. Harris

War, Way, Wilderness

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

Aldo Leopold

Nature, Environmental, Wilderness

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

John Muir

Perfect, Glaciers, Wilderness

John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Thinking, Wilderness, Chimneys

Remarks at University of Chicago, January 14, 1966.

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

Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, Simon and Schuster