"We need the tonic of wildness."Henry David Thoreau
Wilderness Quotes
11 FAMOUS QUOTES · WILDERNESS
Wilderness Quotes
Read 11 famous wilderness quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
Edward Abbey
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
John Muir
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."Henry David Thoreau
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."
John Muir
"There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot."
Aldo Leopold
“Keep close to Nature's heart, and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
John Muir
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
Wallace Stegner
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”
Edward Abbey
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir
“What would the world be, once bereft of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins