Wildness Quotes

88 Wildness quotes by 57 unique authors

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
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

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