Wildness Quotes

88 quotes by 57 authors

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness, — Howard Zahniser
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the… — Richard Louv
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels,… — Henry David Thoreau
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare… — Washington Irving
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness… — Henry David Thoreau
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early… — Henry David Thoreau
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an… — Jay Griffiths
You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their… — Eve Ensler
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. — Charles Lindbergh
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But… — Anita Roddick
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it. — Anthony Head
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence,… — David W. Orr
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.… — Thomas Berry
Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of… — David Deida
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. — Michael Pollan
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of… — Phyllis McGinley
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to… — Robert Bly
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure. — Henry David Thoreau
Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys… — Michael Brune
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. — Emily Carr

Who Wrote These Wildness Quotes

57 authors contributed a total of 88 Wildness Quotes, led by these top contributors: