Wilderness Journey Quotes

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old and some of the young, and some of the weak are left behind by the side of the trail.

If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

We are certainly the Lord's firstborn in this wilderness.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.