Wild Places Quotes

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.

I think, as a young guy, I was always drawn to being in wild places. Climbing was a logical extension of that.

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagine our country without our national parks and our monuments. Here in California, imagine if you didn't have in Southern Cal the Channel Islands or the great Highway 1, Big Sur up to Point Reyes up to the Redwood country.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

I, a priest of Christ,... do command ye, most foul spirits, who do stir up these clouds,... that ye depart from them, and disperse yourselves into wild and untilled places, that ye may be no longer able to harm men or animals or fruits or herbs, or whatsoever is designed for human use.

We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The mind I love must have wild places.

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.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

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

My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing for a week in the wilds of Alaska or Canada. The land was always in their souls.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

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.

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.

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

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.

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

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

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.

We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.