Call-of-the-wild Quote by Jack London

“his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields.”

— Anatole France

“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling…

— Douglas Adams

“The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was…

— Chuang Tzu

“That’s how he’d thought of most people— appearing in your life like foundlings on the doorstep, only to be swept away later as if…

— Adam Johnson

“A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires…

— James Joyce

“the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth…

— Kenneth Grahame

“I'd spent my life searching for something I couldn't name. And as I drowned in the torrential flow of conflicting desires, caught in the…

— Emma Raveling

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis

“His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.”

— Joseph Conrad

“I knew how one climbing the mountain of worldly success can slip down into the river below without being conscious of the descent till…

— Diego Rivera

“He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in…

— James Salter

“It was as if a floodgate had been let down, and a rush of ecstasy mingled with long forgotten pain washed over his entire…

— L.A. Shaw