Into-the-wild 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

“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

“Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...”

— Michael Finkel

“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

“I think the wilderness is where things happen and no one writes about them. It is the place where there are no maps, no…

— J.M. McDermott

“...Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

“He had a need to test himself in ways, as he was fond of saying, "that mattered." He possessed grand - some would say…

— Anonymous

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“desire to appear. All the things he savored with that one breath captured everything he loved about the woods. Nobody understood why he chose…

— Christy Hayes

“Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge…

— E.B. White