Wild Quotes

2102 Wild quotes by 1380 unique authors

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild… — Wallace Stegner
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult… — Jeanette Winterson
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun… — Jim Morrison
We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as… — Pearl Cleage
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently,… — Tim Burton
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting… — Soren Kierkegaard
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,… — Anton Chekhov
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone… — Jack Kerouac
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you… — Honore de Balzac
Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like… — Billie Letts
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. — Louisa May Alcott
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums… — Don Marquis
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of… — June Jordan
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… — Annie Dillard
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,… — Anais Nin
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short… — Alice Walker
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea… — Boris Pasternak
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and… — William Shakespeare
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. — Jane Goodall
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at… — Sara Teasdale
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was… — Jared Diamond

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