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We can never have enough of nature.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness 970 likes Like “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” ― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest tags: conservation, environment, forests, humanity, misattributed-to-gandhi, trees, wilderness 867 likes Like “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir, Our National Parks tags: hiking, mountains, nature, wilderness 793 likes Like “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass tags: bigger-picture, destination, destiny, faith, faith-in-yourself, find-yourself, finding-yourself, getting-lost, greater-calling, lessons, lose-your-way, losing-your-way, mistakes, positive-thinking, trusting-your-journey, wandering, wilderness, wrong-turn 371 likes Like “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail tags: cheryl-strayed, hiking, pacific-crest-trail, wild, wilderness 278 likes Like “Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman tags: creativity, wilderness 273 likes Like “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.” ― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water tags: environment, nature, wilderness 225 likes Like “If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian tags: city, classical, classical-music, folk, folk-music, genre, jazz, jazz-music, metaphor, motif, music, musical, place, road, rock, rock-and-roll, rock-music, temple, wild, wilderness 171 likes Like “Wildness is the preservation of the World.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walking tags: conservation, nature, wilderness 144 likes Like “There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ― John Muir tags: nature, wilderness 135 likes Like “To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.” ― Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces tags: commandment, god, wilderness 112 likes Like “To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There tags: conservation, nature, wilderness 104 likes Like “Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.” ― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit tags: adventure, climbing, mountains, wilderness 99 likes Like “And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.” ― Farley Mowat tags: eskimo-folklore, wild-life, wilderness, wolves 79 likes Like “The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” ― Nancy Wynne Newhall tags: answers, questions, wilderness 66 likes Like “We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder tags: emotion, homesteading, prairie, sadness, wilderness 64 likes Like “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” ― Jimmy Carter tags: environment, nature, wilderness 62 likes Like “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, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There tags: wilderness 52 likes Like “Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.” ― Peter Heller, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River tags: kayak, outdoors, risk, wilderness 51 likes Like “It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.” ― Leslie What, Crazy Love tags: funny, hermit, literature, simile, wilderness 41 likes Like “It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.” ― Loren Eiseley tags: quest, vision, wilderness 38 likes Like “One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence" tags: addiction, harmony, peace, quietness, quotes, recurring, solitude, state-of-being, wilderness 35 likes Like “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.” ― T.K. Whipple tags: america, wilderness 30 likes Like “Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin tags: men, patriarchy, wilderness, women 28 likes Like “I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.” ― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands tags: fulfillment, true-contentment, wilderness 27 likes Like “Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There tags: nature, wilderness 21 likes Like “The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.” ― Doug Peacock, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness tags: wilderness 12 likes Like “Every morning in the middle of nowhere, without electricity or anyone to impress, I'd take great care in picking out my outfit and hover in front of a business card-size mirror to apply my lip gloss and check my eyebrows. I also felt I had a strong case for bringing a little black dress on expeditions. Village parties spring up more often than you might expect, and despite never having been a Girl Scout, I like to be prepared.” ― Mireya Mayor, Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey from NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer tags: explorers, fashion, girl-scouts, wilderness 8 likes Like « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next » All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote Browse By Tag love (60006) inspirational (47628) life (46898) humor (31973) philosophy (19360) truth (16194) god (14733) wisdom (14719) happiness (13241) inspirational-quotes (13073) hope (12577) romance (12475) death (11779) quotes (11286) poetry (10703) faith (10649) writing (10217) inspiration (9518) religion (8917) success (8565) knowledge (8547) education (8208) relationships (7774) motivational (7289) life-lessons (7025) funny (6962) science (6933) books (6824) spirituality (6567) time (6458) More... ©2017Goodreads Incabout usadvertiseauthor programjobsapiour blogauthors & advertisers blogtermsprivacyhelpswitch to:mobile version Welcome back. 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