Werner Herzog Quotes

I think true wilderness can still be found, but it's hard to reach and dangerous when you get there, which is probably why it still exists.

You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

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

I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I'm no stranger to that sort of landscape.

I'd love to be on 'Man vs. Wild.'

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

Going into the woods, is going home

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

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

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

I know it sounds very cliché and not very exciting, but if I'm outdoors - in the wild or the ocean or the forest - it inspires me.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.