Wildness Quotes
88 quotes by 57 authors
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
— David R. Brower
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Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world
— Gary Snyder
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.
— Deny King
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities…
— Thomas Berry
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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In wildness is the salvation of the world,
— Aldo Leopold
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Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
— Gary Snyder
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the…
— Caroline Knapp
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We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
— Toni Cade Bambara
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Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have…
— Naomi Klein
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Love is a powerful tool, and maybe, just maybe, before the last little town is corrupted and the last of the unroaded and undeveloped wildness…
— T. H. Watkins
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Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,…
— Jack Donovan
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The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
— Eban Goodstein
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Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
— Tracy Kidder
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace…
— John Zerzan
Who Wrote These Wildness Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 88 Wildness Quotes, led by these top contributors: