#wilderness

It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#hiking #pacific-crest-trail #wild #wilderness #experience

And this is what happened, ands 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

#wild-life #wilderness #wolves #life

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#begins #born #character #comes #day

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#another #boone #chimney #could #crowded

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#discovering #fashion #find #finding #interested

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#ball #bear #film #go #here

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#existence #humans #important #life #quality

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#accomplishments #behind #fade #i #life

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home