Wilds Quotes

28 Wilds quotes by 22 unique authors

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. — Jean Burden
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Wilds aren’t safe anymore, — Lauren Oliver
That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt. — Lauren Oliver
And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never… — Lauren Oliver
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like… — Lauren Oliver
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. — J M Coetzee

Who Wrote These Wilds Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 28 Wilds Quotes as follows: