Rugged Landscape Quotes

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

Wildness is my suiting scene.

The moon is very rugged.

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.

Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.

Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

Wales is a lot like New Zealand.

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.

I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.

New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.