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Wild Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you…
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do…
- And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But…
- I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and…
- I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to…
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You…
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