Wild places Quote by Paul Hodson

“It is pleasant to walk over the beds of these fresh, crisp, and rustling leaves. How beautifully they go to their graves! how gently…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They are very wild and show plainly they have been bred in the woods.”

— Hannah Cooper

“Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“We were carried for many days in houses that went on wheels and flew along like birds. And now it seemed as if the…

— Claire Prentice

“Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious…

— Willa Cather

“During the summers they traveled widely through the forests, killing men for booty.”

— Jesse L. Byock

“My grandparents... planted their land up with trees, both those native... and exotics which stood in memory of the countries where they had lived.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting…

— Eva Figes

“So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a…

— Gogol Nikolai Gogol

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which…

— Henry David Thoreau