Wildness Quotes

88 quotes by 57 authors

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
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
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
Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world — Gary Snyder
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau
We need the tonic of wildness and...nature. — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
In wildness is the salvation of the world, — Aldo Leopold
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again. — Gary Snyder
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
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. — Toni Cade Bambara
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
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
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
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein
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
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression — Tracy Kidder
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

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