It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-” — Alice Walker 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 may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. — John Matthews 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
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
Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the… — Gretel Ehrlich 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
“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
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid of you,” I said quietly. “Oh?” The Goblin King lifted his head. “I am the Lord of Mischief,… — S. Jae-Jones Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me.… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau 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
“If mind belongs to humans alone, then stones, trees, and streams become mere objects of human tinkering. We can plunder the earth's… — Priscilla Stuckey 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
“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
“Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“In the world that we live in— purity and innocence are the true strengths. It is strength to live in a world… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I… — Jeanette Winterson 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
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
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
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
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