Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to
find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a
necessity... ~ John Muir
“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the
remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country
available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and
look in. ~ Wallace Stengner
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ~ Jimmy Carter
And this is what happened, and this is why the caribou and the wolf are
one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the
caribou strong. ~ Farley Mowat
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal,
these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they
call it peace. ~ Tacitus
Quotes about wilderness, nature, life
- When have you been moved by the wilderness?
- What loss of nature have you lamented?
- What does nature communicate?
