Wild Places Quotes

• It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

  Art Wolfe

  Inspirational, Nature, Sky

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  If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

  Steve Irwin

  Ifs

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.211, Penguin

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• Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

  Stewart Udall

  Sunset, Earth, Wonder

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• The mind I love must have wild places.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mind

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• True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Voice, Solitude, Found

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint

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• The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

  David R. Brower

  Nature, Ends

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• Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Healing, I Hate You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Religious

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, People, Choices

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• No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Dream, Flower

  "Katherine Mansfield Notebooks".

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• Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac....I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Years, Cities, Glasses

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• The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Way, Poet

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Ch. 3: The Emancipation of Domesticity, 1910.

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• As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Greed, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Responsibility, Realizing, Protect

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• I can kind of go into the wild places and immediately feel rested and rejuvenated.

  Jorja Fox

  Kind, Feels, I Can

  "CSI Actress Jorja Fox: On Finding Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn.

  David R. Brower

  Water, Goes On, Earth

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• Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place.

  Pico Iyer

  Morning, Safe, Wake Up

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

  George Aiken

  Needs, Wilderness, Found

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• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  Rachael Taylor

  Art, Ocean, Trying

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Adventure, Men

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• All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

  Jo Walton

  Farms

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan

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• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

  Galen

  Powerful, Writing, Fate

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• I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Names, Darkness, Negative

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Home, Adventure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Perception, World, Disinterest

  Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books

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