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Wild Quotes by Robert Macfarlane
- We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
- Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the…
- All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates.…
More Wild Quotes
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something… — James Cameron
- 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
- My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare
- There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi
- There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden...… — G. Stanley Hall