Landscape Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“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

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

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

“The wilderness is where all the creatives and prophets and system-buckers and risk-takers have always lived, and it is stunningly vibrant. The walk out…

— Jen Hatmaker

“Having grown up in those woods, Walker knew that for many people, the wilderness did not represent an otherworldly sanctum of ‘biodiversity,’ as it…

— Robert Moor

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

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is…

— Ansel Adams

“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

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Cotton Mather

“Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. I suppose some…

— Aldo Leopold