Jack London

“I ride over my beautiful ranch. Betwen my legs is a beautiful horse. The air is wine. The grapes on a score…

— Jack London

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every…

— Jack London

“You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the…

— Jack London

“Always has woman crouched close to earth like a partridge hen mothering her young; always has my wantonness of roving led me…

— Jack London

“Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting.”

— Jack London

“This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of…

— Jack London

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited…

— Jack London

“On every side was the silence, pressing upon them with a tangible presence.  It affected their minds as the many atmospheres of…

— Jack London

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…

— Jack London

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's…

— Jack London

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength…

— Jack London

“His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in…

— Jack London

The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust…

— Jack London

“Definitions must agree, not with egos, but with life. Mr. Burroughs goes on the basis that a definition is something hard and…

— Jack London

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt…

— Jack London

“But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for…

— Jack London

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

— Jack London

“There is a patience of the wild--dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself--that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web,…

— Jack London

“In a civilisation frankly materialistic and based upon property, not soul, it is inevitable that property shall be exalted over soul, that…

— Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

— Jack London

But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted…

— Jack London

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

— Jack London

“When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In…

— Jack London

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under…

— Jack London

“He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and…

— Jack London