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Wild Quotes by Annie Dillard
- What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The…
- A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
- Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is…
More Wild Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about… — Lester Bangs
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it… — Francis Bacon
- I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and… — Christine Baranski
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey