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Wild Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by…
- What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
- The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness…
- Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural…
- From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized…
- Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits…
- It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
- We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,…
- Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken…
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
- In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.
- We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of…
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be…
- All good things are wild and free.
- I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another…
- I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
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