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Quotes About Wild

There's always been a wild quiet about Solly. It stays in the air near him like a scent.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Instinct is older than paper, wilder than words.
~ Jean Hegland
Blessed are those who break off from separateness theirs is wild heaven.
~ Jean Valentine
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.
~ Jeff Kinney
Even if you're on a professional assignment, it's difficult to ignore the sounds of a couple going at it like wild animals. I
~ Jeff Strand
You know that hormones will course through you, whispering commands; that the pull of the moon will be shared by you and the ocean and the minds of wild things.
~ Elizabeth Berg
She ate like a polite wolf.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Depression is, especially these days, an overused term to be sure, but never one associated with anything wild, anything about dancing all night with a lampshade on your head and then going home and killing yourself.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Wild Hunt rides tonight." Meg's eyes glinted with her eerie tale. "They ride on horses with nostrils like burning coals, chasing the souls of the wicked, that cannot rest for—" Then her head came up sharp. And, "Gavin," she says, "there's knocking at the door." I thought her saying it was still part of the tale. Then I heard it too, a thud too regular for wind and rain.
~ Ellen Kushner
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon....
~ Alfred Noyes
and braying multitudes of wild asses. The
~ Alfred W. Crosby
What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I've forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You'll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that's that.
~ Ali Smith
This may sound like a wild speculation, yet, judging from analogy, there may perhaps be within the planetary sphere an Entity Whose consciousness is as far removed from that of man as the consciousness of man is from that of the atom of chemistry.
~ Alice A. Bailey
I begin to remember stories from my childhood of the wild people, the Deridhu, who live in the heart of the forest; they are supposed to come out and bring nightmares to children who do not do as they are told, and ride the cows so they come to the morning stare-eyed and milkless. Perhaps they are a heartside memory of these folk. Many forgotten things live still in children's tales." Maerad glanced at the bowmen; they looked altogether too grim to take cows on wild rides.
~ Alison Croggon
If I find any more baby Bards in the wild, I shall give up traveling," he said at last. "I'm not running a School.
~ Alison Croggon
I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.
~ Allen Ginsberg
So you're Zach." Townsend didn't even try to hide the judgement in his voice as he looked Zach up and down in some sort of silent but dangerous examination. Zach huffed but smiled. "so you're Townsend." The two of them stared for a long time, wordless. It felt like I was watching a documentary on the Nature Channel, something about alpha males in the wild.
~ Ally Carter
CRISPR-enabled 'gene drives' enable us to make changes to the germ-line of organisms permanent such that changes spread through the entire wild population, including making species extinct on demand. Unlike nuclear weapons such technologies are not complex, expensive, and able to be kept secret for a long time.
~ Dominic Cummings
Well, I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.
~ Dean Potter
I'd been lucky to do radio drama and RTE things. Having the opportunity to work with Netflix was wild to me but I'm still just a wee girl from Donegal.
~ Amybeth McNulty
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
~ Vanilla Ice
Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated.
~ Prince