Untamed Environment Quotes

Nature abhors a garden.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Jet ski and wild noises.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

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.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

For the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude and lacking in arrangement.