“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” — Bill Watterson

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” — Robert Frost

“Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” — Terry Tempest Williams

“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.” — Charles Lindbergh

“The wilderness holds answers to questions we have not yet learned to ask.” — Nancy Wynne Newhall

“There’s no wi-fi in the mountains, but you’ll find no better connection.” — Anonymous

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” — John Lubbock

“Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” — Walt Whitman

“The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.” — Teddy Roosevelt

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my sense put in order.” — John Burroughs

“The glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed.” — John Muir

“We can never have enough of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Leave the road, take the trails.” — Pythagoras

“Wilderness is not a luxury but necessity of the human spirit.” — Edward Abbey

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” — Lorraine Anderson

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity.” — John Muir

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” — Alice Walker

“In a cool solitude of trees, where leaves and birds a music spin, mind that was weary is at ease, new rhythms in the soul begin.” — William Kean Seymour