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Quotes About Wild

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.
~ Edith Pattou
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.
~ Edith Pattou
One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
~ Edith Wharton
In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.
~ Edith Wharton
Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.
~ Alex Flinn
The mind I love must have wild places: a tangled orchard where damsons drop in heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, a chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody has fathomed the depths of and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
~ Alexandra Fuller
People love salmon - but not all salmon is created equal. Farmed fish can be fed yucky things, with harmful side effects to both the fish themselves and to the waters they call home.
~ Brad Leone
In 'Hokey Pokey,' bikes are kind of more than bikes alone. They become mustangs; they become creatures that rip up the dust as they gallop across the Great Plains.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.
~ Anoushka Shankar
I sometimes think a movement as rich and wild and incredible as Tropicalismo wouldn't have survived without incredibly catchy music.
~ Devendra Banhart
I love Roger Deakin's writing, and enjoyed making a programme about wild swimming for BBC4, inspired by his book about his own aquatic adventures, 'Waterlog'.
~ Alice Roberts
The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
~ Rebecca Solnit
We have a wild, passionate, rampant ; for experience, for being alive, for the tasting and touching of our world. It is completely unhinged. It's reckless, this love we have.
~ Reginald A. Ray
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
~ Rex Stout
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.
~ Richard Matheson
No one can ever be abandoned, anywhere, ever. Full-out, four-alarm, symphonic narrative mayhem plays out all around them. She has no idea, and there's no way he can let her know. Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.
~ Richard Powers
No one can ever be abandoned, anywhere, ever. Fullout, four-alarm, symphonic narrative mayhem plays out all around them. She has no idea, and there's no way he can let her know. Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.
~ Richard Powers
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~ Richard Rohr
As Mary Oliver puts it, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~ Richard Rohr
hellbenders. I collected with exuberance and totality, bringing home almost everything I could get my hands on, and releasing them into the assorted outdoor terrariums or aquariums in my back yard (the turtles I let run wild in the yard, like dogs or cats).
~ Rick Bass
Why can't you place a blessing like that on us? I asked. It only works on wild animals. So it would only affect Percy, Annabeth reasoned. Hey! I protested.
~ Rick Riordan
The sea does not like to be restrained.
~ Rick Riordan
Our baboon was going completely sky goddess - which is to say, nuts.
~ Rick Riordan
Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other's clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz.
~ Rick Riordan