Wild Quotes

2102 quotes by 1430 authors

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want… — Jonathan Franzen
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Frank N. Ikard
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure. — Malcolm Douglas
Always we try to put the wild in a cage. — John Fowles
A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple,… — Clarice Lispector
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the… — Matthew Arnold
What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms… — Unknown Author
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self... — Robin Morgan
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night… — Emily Bronte
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective… — Alexander Hamilton
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in… — William Hazlitt
The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful… — Joseph Conrad
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett
Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a… — Naomi Ragen
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to… — Whitley Strieber
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons. — Laurie Anderson
Look at his collar! He's a kittypet! Once a kittypet, always a kittypet. This clan needs wild-born warriors to defend it, not another soft mouth… — Erin Hunter

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