To the Outside
8 Quotes and Pictures to Get You Outside
“The natural world would always be there to save me from suffering from my human problems.”
“Here’s how we are different than these wonderful plants and animals...You live on in the heads of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”
“When a man must be afraid to drink freely from rivers and streams, that country is no longer fit to live in.”
“It follows that the defining characteristic of the good person is to love and embrace whatever happens to him along his thread of fate; and not to pollute the thread of divinity which is seated within his breast, or trouble it with a welter of confused impressions, but to preserve its constant fervour, in proper alliance to God, saying only what is true, doing only what is just.”
“I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.”
“There are several ways in which I could try and show that we feel the loss of the wilder life we evolved to lead. I could discuss the urge to shop as an expression of the foraging instinct; football as a sublimated hunt; violent films as a remedy for unexorcized conflict; the pursuit of ever more extreme sports as a response to the absence of dangerous animals; the cult of the celebrity chef as an attempt to engage once more with the fruits of the land and sea.”
“He found renewal in wilderness - the geography of hope as it was called by westerners that followed him”
“We would be wise to take more of our cues from the beasts and babies.”
Matt Martens
