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

I feel like I'm doing what I love. If I can get out, shoot, film and climb, and be with my friends and family, I'm happy. It doesn't take a lot. I don't need to climb huge mountains. I have a deep connection with wilderness and the environment, and I'm thankful for that.

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.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

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

Life is about daring to carry out your ideas. And for me, it always comes back to the wilderness, nature, mountains.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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

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

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you're part of the wilderness. That's why I like solo sailing. You can be macho, but at least you can be macho on your own.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.