At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“I am drawn to the notion of wildness—how it shapes our fears and dreams, and how those fears and dreams can, in… — Monte Reel Copy Share Image
“My nature is to be cheerful and my foolish self is very likely to be led astray by happy, frivolous things, things… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here -… — Anthony Head Copy Share Image
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The wild. I have drunk it, deep and raw, and heard it's primal, unforgettable roar. We know it in our dreams, when… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation,… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
“It was early evening twilight when we came around a corner… and there in the road was a red deer stag. He… — Michelle Frost Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
“Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The real act of will was not in the creating of a garden but in the sustaining, the continuous stand against wildness.” — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I know I am wild", she said. But not for the reasons that others say that about themselves. She was wild because… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness. — Jim Cole Copy Share Image
And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side.… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
“Inversnaid This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes… — Gerald Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
