"Arctic Dreams" Quotes
By Barry Lopez
nonfiction | 496 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs more defenders.
Each rock, each tree, each organism is a text, the earth a book that we read and rewrite.
Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water.
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.
The landscape is a moral and ethical context for all life, including our own.
A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.
The more one knows of this world, the more one finds it intolerable.
The Arctic has a way of making us feel small and insignificant.
The natural world is the refuge of the spirit, the place where I go when I need to find who I am.
