“I always thought that 'wilderness' was somewhere where God wasn't. It took me a long time to learn that 'wilderness' is a mighty sacred place.”

“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months, and three days to do it. I didn't know where I was going until I got there.It was a place called the Bridge of the Gods.”

“Hardy had learned in a hard school, where the tests are given by savage Indians, by bitter cold, by hunger. These were tests where the result was not just a bad mark if one failed. The result was a starved or frozen body somewhere, forgotten in the wilderness.”

“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”

“This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals”

“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.”