Quote by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“when we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the…

— Charles Bukowski

“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim…

— Marisha Pessl

“Wild rejoice in jungles not in cages.”

— Pushpa Rana

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Girls and boys and young women generally seemed glad to be in the woods. They looked in the pond and at the flowers, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be…

— Erich Segal

“We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.”

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“In this neck of the woods, the deeper the roots of your family tree, the higher your social esteem. My neighbor was a sapling…

— Denise Grover Swank

“He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.”

— Malorie Blackman

“We were like two wolves that have chased a prey and lost it: They lie together in the dark woods, panting and weary, and…

— Margaret Mazzantini

“The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their…

— Katie Lynn Johnson