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Quotes About Wildness

And to me, wildness means following the growth of love. Like a plant reaching through stone toward the sun-
~ Alice Walker
I cried and bit my fingers and drank wine I snuck from the Clairmont pantry. I spun violently into the sky, raging and banging stars from their moorings, swirling and vomiting. I
~ E. Lockhart
What most people really desire is something quite different from industrial gimmickry- liberty, spontaneity, nakedness, mystery, wildness, wilderness.
~ Edward Abbey
The sensation of freedom was exhilarating, though tinged with a shade of loneliness, a touch of sorrow. The old dream of total independence, beholden to no man and no woman, floated above his days like smoke from a pipe dream, like a silver cloud with a dark lining. For even Hayduke sensed, when he faced the thing directly, that the total loner would go insane. Was insane. Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wildness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
~ Edward Abbey
But he didn't have language for what he really wanted to say; he couldn't explain how her wildness that day, on the road, had thrilled him as much as it terrified him.
~ Anthony Doerr
When you're living the Crunk Rock lifestyle, you don't let anybody tell you what to do. You live your life to the fullest, you live every day like it's your last, and you party like a rock star. It's just a crazy lifestyle.
~ Lil Jon
Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
~ Francesca Lia Block
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
~ Francesca Lia Block
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
I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.
~ Sarah Bolger
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
~ Emily Carr
There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.
~ Mark Frost
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.
~ Ricky Reed
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
~ H. G. Wells
St James' Park was always, in the course of my career, a great place to play football, for the wildness of the crowd and the no-holds-barred football that both my team, Manchester United, and Newcastle would play.
~ Paul Scholes
Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.
~ Anand Giridharadas
I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.
~ Jeff Beck
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
~ Charles Lindbergh
I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic so acutely.
~ Alexander Armstrong
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
~ Francois Nars
I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.
~ John Burnside
To me, when something's really funny, there's, like, a wildness to it, and it's very close to the wildness of something potentially tragic or gross. It's all very close to each other when you have that extreme level of feeling.
~ Perfume Genius
I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.
~ Juergen Teller