Larry Fitzgerald Quotes

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

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

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.

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

I now walk into the wild.

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

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

A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

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

I have gone into the waste lonely places

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

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

I am happiest in the brush and by myself - whether that's the woods of northern Minnesota or the wilds of Alaska behind a dogteam, picking through the foothills of the mountains by my ranch in New Mexico on horseback, or on the ship of my sailboat on the Pacific - so I guess it made sense to me that both Brian and Samuel would find their challenges and adventures, if that's what you call them, in the woods.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.