Wilderness Quotes - Page 7

• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

  Jack Kerouac

  Being Alone, Men, Boredom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.

  John Muir

  Book, Adventure, One Day

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

  Margaret Murie

  Life, Nature, Civilization

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Character, Mean

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• All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Cherish, Conservation

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

  Jim Fowler

  Nature, Important, Quality

  Profile Page on Animal Planet website, www.animalplanet.com.

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• Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Struggle, Heaven, Fierce

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.639, Pearson Education

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• In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

  Jason Hill

  Art, Freedom, Garden

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

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• We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as wild. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Beautiful, Native American, Blessing

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “My People the Sioux”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Nature, Determination

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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• The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wise, Mistake, Civilization

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  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.67, e-artnow

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• A clear stream, a long horizon, a forest wilderness and open sky - these are man's most ancient possessions. In a modern society, they are his most priceless.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Sky, Long

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.365, Best Books on

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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  Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

  John Muir

  Life, Strength, Beauty

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

  Benton MacKaye

  Nature, Escaping, Effort

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• The sun shines not on us but in us.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Strength, Emotional

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.92, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest.

  John Muir

  Woods

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

  Edward Abbey

  Solitude, Depth, Madness

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey, August 1, 1975.

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• All good things are wild and free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  I Hate You, Independence, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.82, University of Georgia Press

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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