Wild Places Quotations

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

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

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in front of the stage and it could be louder than any show you've ever been to in your life. But if you were towards the back of the club at the bar, you could sit and have a conversation with someone. It was the weirdest thing to me.

The mind I love must have wild places.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

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

We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion.

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

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

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.