Wilderness Areas

Famous quotes containing the words wilderness and/or areas:

    The man in the wilderness said to me,
    How many strawberries grow in the sea?
    I answered him as I thought good,
    As many red herrings as grow in the wood.
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The man in the wilderness (l. 1–4)

    If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.
    Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)