Wildness Quotes

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

— David R. Brower

Wildness is my suiting scene.

— John Clare

The most alive is the wildest.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Love me...with all the abandon of a sudden wild rain.”

— Sanober Khan

We need the tonic of wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

— John Muir

In wildness is the salvation of the world,

— Aldo Leopold

“The wildness of the flower is all in the tone”

— Fanny Howe

We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

— John Matthews

“America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn't go wild and feels free.”

— Bryant McGill

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

— Tracy Kidder

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

— Michael Pollan

“Everything about Brook screamed of a hidden wildness. One I hoped nobody ever tamed.”

— J.A. Belfield

God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find…

— Jan L. Richardson

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the…

— Charles Lindbergh

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

— David R. Brower

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a…

— Robert Bly

“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,…

— Roman Payne

I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic…

— Alexander Armstrong

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in…

— Phyllis McGinley

“Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to…

— Joanne Harris

A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,…

— Thomas Starr King

My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with…

— Eve Ensler

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones…

— Richard Louv

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget…

— Anonymous

Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out…

— Sarah J. Buckley

Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should…

— John Muir

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

“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

“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

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…

— Peter Straub

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign…

— Thomas Berry

“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

“… 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

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