Creativity Quote by Mark Udall

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful…

— Robert MacFarlane

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

— John Muir

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed…

— Tim Cahill

“Hiking is rewarding. The tranquillity of the mountains provides a perfect setting for self-introspection.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“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

“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

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

— Edward Abbey

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we are wise…

— Sigurd F. Olson

My motivation to keep hiking was rooted in the magnificent details of the Appalachian Mountains, and the more I poured myself out - the…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has…

— Aldo Leopold

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place,…

— Geraldine Brooks

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau