Quotes by Wild Places I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay. Carl Hiaasen wild-places florida fighting I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before. Cheryl Strayed wild-places darkness names CBGB was a wild place, ... The first time I ever played there was in 1987, I think, with my hardcore band, Scream. And I remember the craziest [thing] about that club was you could be in Dave Grohl wild-places cbgb thinking The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we. David R. Brower wild-places nature ends We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn. David R. Brower wild-places goes-on water As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature. Elizabeth Lesser wild-places greed land It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’ Enos Mills wild-places powerful country As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness. George Aiken wild-places wilderness needs The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's. Gilbert K. Chesterton wild-places mind way All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty. Jo Walton wild-places farms I can kind of go into the wild places and immediately feel rested and rejuvenated. Jorja Fox wild-places kind feels The mind I love must have wild places. Katherine Mansfield wild-places mind Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But it's a safe guess that you'll either be married, arrested, or in the midst of some incredible transaction where somebody is stealing your passport or paying you in Dominican pesos for it, or whatever. It's a wild place. Pico Iyer wild-places safe morning The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you. Rachael Taylor wild-places ocean art Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac....I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places. Robert Macfarlane wild-places cities years All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates. Robert Macfarlane wild-places perception world We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion. Roger Tory Peterson wild-places nature animal If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves. Steve Irwin wild-places ifs Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth! Stewart Udall wild-places sunset earth Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man. Thomas Lovejoy wild-places men people 12»