The West of which I speak is but another name for the…

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

— Carol J. Adams

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

— Gary Snyder

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as,…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by…

— Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to…

— Henry David Thoreau