Wildness Quotes - Page 2

• Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Climbing

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

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• If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

  Pablo Picasso

  Horse, Vision, Might

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• Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Unique, Roots

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independent, Men, Broken

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.66, David M Gross

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• In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Order, Darkness, Able

  Francesca Lia Block (2012). “The Elementals”, p.139, St. Martin's Press

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• It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Bogs, Wilderness

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• In wildness is the salvation of the world.

  Aldo Leopold

  World, Salvation

  Aldo Leopold (1950). “A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there: illus. by Charles W. Schwartz”, New York

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• The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

  Tracy Kidder

  Expression, Combination, Domesticity

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Real, Thinking

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Our World, Evil, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.57, H. G. Wells

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• Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Running, Horse, Rivers

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  The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Garden

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

  John Muir

  Heart, School, Views

  John Muir (2010). “The Wilderness Journeys”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Smell, Needs

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Wilderness, Cherish

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.

  John Muir

  Heart, Volcanoes, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.66, Great West Books

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• There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

  Emily Carr

  Vastness, Facts, Spirit

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.24, D & M Publishers

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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, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Nature, Inspire

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Cabinets, Spirit, Makers

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• Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities that enable all living beings to obtain their food, to find shelter, to bring forth their young: to sing and dance and fly through the air and swim through the depths of the sea. This is the same inner tendency that evokes the insight of the poet, the skill of the artist and the power of the shaman.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Creativity, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.51, Crown

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• Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Adventure, Men

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Civilization

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.192, David M Gross

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Sweat, Creating

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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