We must go beyond textbooks go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

To the lover of wilderness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Save for thee and thy lessons man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character born for religion comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment and spiritual life begins again.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics mistakes are wounding emotionally but you recover. Personally wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms helps me reflect and in the process restore my creativity.

To plunder to slaughter to steal these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness they call it peace.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Generally speaking a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.