Wildness Quotes

88 quotes by 57 authors

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard… — Henry David Thoreau
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of… — Henry David Thoreau
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own. — Henry David Thoreau
The most alive is the wildest. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken… — Henry David Thoreau
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of… — Henry David Thoreau
Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver… — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Wildness is my suiting scene. — John Clare
In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. — Richard Louv
We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness… — Terry Tempest Williams
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere… — John Muir
When there are enough people on the land to use it but not enough to husband it, then the wildness of the soil that we… — Wendell Berry
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. — Daniel Day-Lewis
In wildness is the preservation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. — H.G. Wells
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since… — Helen Fisher
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness! — Pablo Picasso
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau
Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their… — Cormac McCarthy

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