Wilds Quotes
28 quotes by 22 authors
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Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
— Jean Burden
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Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is…
— Sigurd F. Olson
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material. It was very…
— Aldo Leopold
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If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in…
— Richard Allen
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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old…
— Robert Byrd
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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
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If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know what the big…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the…
— Elliott Merrick
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
— Mark Twain
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I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its…
— Wallace Stevens
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents…
— Walter Savage Landor
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible…
— John Muir
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see,…
— David Mamet
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We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city…
— Clive Barker
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all…
— Charlotte Bronte
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When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While…
— Yukio Mishima
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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular,…
— Lauren Oliver
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It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing,…
— Lauren Oliver
Who Wrote These Wilds Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 28 Wilds Quotes as follows: