Wild Quotes
2102 quotes by 1380 authors
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You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young
— Mike Tomlin
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The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's…
— Carl Safina
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I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're…
— Carl Safina
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Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
— Jack Kerouac
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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me…
— Max Beckmann
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In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.
— Robert Pinsky
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Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by…
— Daniel Boone
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
— Sam Houston
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Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to…
— Jared Diamond
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Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species,…
— Jared Diamond
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But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the…
— Jared Diamond
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to…
— Galen
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I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
— Gerald Stern
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
— Louis Leakey
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I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.
— Silvio Berlusconi
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The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made…
— Douglas Davis
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