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Quotes About Wildness

The strength and wildness and will that I found in him were more and better than all the truth and goodness in the world. I pledged myself to him as brother and friend no matter what he'd done and no matter what he was.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.
~ Phil Robertson
Outwardly he was calm, reasonable, patient. All his wildness was in his head - such a good place for it!
~ Mary Oliver
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
~ Stephen Leacock
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
~ Ken Follett
n'aimait la mer qu'à cause de ses tempêtes, et
~ Gustave Flaubert
I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
yet in my new wildness and freedom I
~ H.P. Lovecraft
To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
~ John Muir
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
~ Florence Welch
How come no one tells a rabbit to settle down? It's completely kosher for all of you to "fuck like bunnies" – in fact, it's part of the job description.
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.
~ Sir Thomas Beecham
All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature.
~ bell hooks
Ferocity gave her a beauty that nature had denied her.
~ Bernard Cornwell
We cannot tame the Lion of Judah. There is a mystery, a wonder, and, yes, even a wildness about God we cannot take from Him.
~ Beth Moore
We came to believe that we could concrete over the fields and design a better life for ourselves, free of nature's wildness and uncertainties. But it's very obvious now that this was the wrong way to go.
~ Sue Thomas
Suddenly it seemed that all that had been learnt in every English childhood of the wildness of English magic might still be true, and even now on some long-forgotten paths, behind the sky, on the other side of the rain, John Uskglass might be riding still, with his company of men and fairies. Most
~ Susanna Clarke
The wildness of the flower is all in the tone
~ Fanny Howe
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
There were, in fact, countless things he appreciated about AnnaLee. He liked her wildness, the way she carried herself like a great ship through the world; her grief, and her great mind; the way she listened in church, her strange vulnerability to her mother. She had a resilient, perfectly normal marriage, she was afraid to drive, and she dreamed primarily in smells. She interested him.
~ Haven Kimmel
There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a little giddy.
~ Haven Kimmel
Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.
~ St. Augustine
Sarát levetkÅ'ztetni gátlástalan cselekedet volt, szinte vandalizmus, mint szabadon ereszteni egy állatkert lakóit vagy felrobbantani egy gátat.
~ Michael Chabon
Who realizes how contented feral children are? The grasp of the family fell away as soon as I was out the door.
~ Michael Ondaatje