Henry Rollins Quotes

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

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.

I now walk into the wild.

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

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

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

My soul lives in Montana. It's where I fly-fish for trout.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.

I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.

I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.

I actually really like being in the woods.

I titled it 'Alaska' because the song sort of represents everything that happened in my life surrounding a hiking trip I took for a month in Alaska.

As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you're part of the wilderness. That's why I like solo sailing. You can be macho, but at least you can be macho on your own.

I have my mountain man moments like hiking in the woods.

Traditional alpinism is to go where the others are not going and to be self-reliant.

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