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• Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Spring, Fall, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

  Frederick Buechner

  Rain, Winter, Flames

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• Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Men, Emotional

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• Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3148, e-artnow

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• In the first seat, in robe of various dyes,
  A noble wildness flashing from his eyes,
  Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore,
  For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore:
  The other held a globe, which to his will
  Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill:
  Things of the noblest kind his genius drew,
  And look'd through nature at a single view:
  A loose he gave to his unbounded soul,
  And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll;
  Call'd into being scenes unknown before,
  And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

  Charles Churchill

  Eye, Views, Hands

  Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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• With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Ideas, Degrees

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.269, Hachette UK

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• Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, Alive

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

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• Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

  Gary Snyder

  World, Wilderness, Preservation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• Wildness is my suiting scene.

  John Clare

  Nature, Scene

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.235, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Moving, Fall

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• At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

  Aldo Leopold

  Hobbies, Degrees, Useless

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Lasts, Old Love, Kind

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• Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.

  Naomi Klein

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "The grieving parents who might yet bring Bush down". www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2004.

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• When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Distance, Mean, Self

  Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.81, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Lying, Waiting

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VI : The Paradoxes of Christianity, 1908.

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• Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity and wildness. But they have antennae in their heads. When they walk down the street anywhere in the world, they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem, or even something in a completely different business.

  Anita Roddick

  Hate, Creativity, Successful

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• There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Yearning

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

  L.A. Meyer

  Clothes, Dirt, Streaks

  L. A. Meyer (2005). “Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love. How lucky we are that her imagination runs deep, runs true, runs onto the page in crazily beautiful stories -- and lucky, so very lucky, to be holding those stories right now in our hands.

  Molly Gloss

  Beautiful, Running, Crazy

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• We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

  Howard Zahniser

  Quality, Essentials, Remember

  Howard Zahniser, Ed Zahniser, George D. Davis, Paul Schaefer, Douglas W. Scott (1992). “Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adirondack Writings of Howard Zahniser”, North Country Books Incorporated

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• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Curves, Space

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

  Louise Erdrich

  Dream, Soul, Desire

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• We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

  John Matthews

  Thinking, Civilized

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.

  William Morris

  Mean, Garden, House

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• Each time we deny our female functions, each time we deviate from our bodies' natural path, we move father away from out feminine roots. Our female bodies need us now more than ever, and we too need the wisdom, the wildness, the passion, the joy, the vitality and the authenticity that we can gain through this most intimate of reconciliations.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Father, Moving, Passion

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