Nature Quote by Jon Krakauer

“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

“Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from…

— Rebecca Solnit

An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land…

— Jon Krakauer

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who…

— Aldo Leopold

We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one…

— Howard Zahniser

“Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the…

— Samuel Hall Young

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed…

— Chief Luther Standing Bear

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

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

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

— Octavian Paler

“The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do –…

— Barbara Savage