Attention Quote by Jon Krakauer

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

— Octavian Paler

Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship,…

— Sigurd F. Olson

“To be in touch with wilderness is to have stepped past the proud cattle of the field and wandered far from the twinkles of…

— Martin Shaw

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an…

— Roderick Nash

“Connecting with the wilderness allows us to live in the flow of a meaningful, joyful life. Embracing this state of connectedness or oneness with…

— Sylvia Dolson

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the…

— Jon Krakauer

Going into the woods, you can go as fast or as slow as you want. It's restorative. Even when I was young, the wilderness…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

— Cotton Mather

“Wilderness travel can be extremely taxing and dangerous. You can fall into a crevasse, flip your kayak, lose your way, become hypothermic, run out…

— Barry López

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

“the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the…

— Edward Abbey

“The trouble with wilderness is that it quietly expresses and reproduces the very values its devotees seek to reject. The flight from history that…

— William Cronon