![]() “Wildness is the preservation of the World.” – Henry David Thoreau “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed … We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.” – Wallace Stegner It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.” – Cheryl Strayed The experience was powerful and fundamental. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. “It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. “What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” – Chris Maser We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau “We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. Either you know it in your bones, or you are very, very old.” – Aldo Leopold I suppose some will wish to debate whether it is important to keep these primitive arts alive. “Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?” – Aldo Leopold ![]() Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. “Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. ![]() “All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.” – Aldo Leopold “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” – Aldo Leopold “Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.” – John Muir “People are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.” – John Muir Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy here.” – John Muir “So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. “Nothing truly wild is unclean.” – John Muir “All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God’s Light.” – John Muir “There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” – John Muir “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 “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir If you’re here reading this, I’m sure you’re aware of it too. The following wilderness quotes by different people over many years demonstrate how universal these feelings are. It’s the trees, the air, the animals – life. I’ve even felt it hunting thick, wet bogs. I’ve felt it sitting in a canoe on the lake. It arrives from time spent in nature, away from people, away from distractions, whether I’m actually seeking the insight and feeling of belonging or not. The following wilderness quotes reflect that knowledge and connection. Outdoors enthusiasts have known this for years, whether they’ve put it in medical terms or not. Some physicians even believe that time spent in nature could become the next vital sign. ![]() In fact, research is mounting on “nature prescriptions” for health. The spiritual awakening and connectedness that comes with time spent outdoors is known by many.
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