Cheryl Strayed Quotes About Wilderness

Quotes about: Wilderness

• The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Woods, Way, Wilderness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Clarity, Wilderness, Skeptical

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Effort, Done, Pushing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.128, Atlantic Books Ltd

• So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Hands, Brave, Scary

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

• 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.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Years, Seven Months, Bridges

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

• You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Wilderness, Heavy, Packs

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

• I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Home, Animal, Land

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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