Quotes on Wild Places

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.