Life Quote by William O. Douglas

“The land of opportunities that appeared greener when they were on the other side of the world deceptively veiled the harsh terrains which could…

— Neetha Joseph

“Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.”

— Gary Chapman

“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in…

— Julene Bair

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola

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

— John Muir

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

— John Muir

“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...”

— John Geddes

“Civilization proceeds in a direction opposite from everything mountains represent: starvation, hardship, coldness, the constant scramble to survive...People used to avoid mountains, but now…

— Bruce Barcott

“As a child I harbored a deep interest in geography. I remember that in the library of my house, immersed in my fantasies, my…

— Barbara Athanassiadis

“All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves…

— bell hooks