We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. — John Matthews Copy Share Image
“America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“God’s wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself.” — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.” — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“She had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.” — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should… — John Muir Copy Share Image
What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water,… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I love the alien in people, god I love the wildness, the wit, the lightning of the Other mind. A kind of… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
