untamed landscapes Quotes

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

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

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.

All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.

Wilderness is the very stuff America is made of.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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