Uninhabited Areas Quotes

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

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

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

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.

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.

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier.

I'd love to go to Easter Island, Hawaii, Iceland and Antarctica.

Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

People would rather live in undeveloped places in the tropical south than have to live under the jurisdiction of four greedy and corrupted princes.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon, and there's no civilisation for thousands of miles.

Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.

A real liberty is found in the country, apart from all its political theory. The practical liberty of America is found in its great space and small population.