Wildness Quotes

88 quotes by 57 authors

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind… — Charles Lindbergh
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness… — Aldo Leopold
So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? — Louise Erdrich
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world. — John Muir
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique… — Haruki Murakami
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked… — Toni Morrison
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. — Sarah Dessen
Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that… — Gena Showalter
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.… — Peter Straub
I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time,… — L.A. Meyer
Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold. — John Muir
Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness. — Louise Erdrich
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are… — Terry Tempest Williams
He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false… — Cormac McCarthy
A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness… — Nalini Singh
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and… — Henry David Thoreau
With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her… — Patrick Rothfuss

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