The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. — John Matthews Copy Share Image
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.” — Titania Hardie Copy Share Image
I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me… — L.A. Meyer Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne 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
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
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and… — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of… — Deny King Copy Share Image
Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from… — Michael Brune Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He used the word savages with affection, as if he liked them a little for it. In his nature was a respect… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by… — William Morris Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard 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
“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
I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“In the cage is the lion. She paces with her memories. Her body is a record of her past. As she moves… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
“Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep. — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The wildness of this life grows & grows & continues to astound me with how large it is, how little I know of it.” — Topaz Winters Copy Share Image
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ” — Randy Elrod Copy Share Image
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
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