Gaston Bachelard Quotes

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I now walk into the wild.

I have gone to the forest.

We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be my wife.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.