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Quotes About Wild

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.
~ Robert Brault
What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.
~ Robert Brault
The evening darkens over After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover That wild will be the night.
~ Robert Bridges
She had a temper like a boar caught in briars at the best," Birgitte said softly to no one in particular. "Not at all like anyone close by.
~ Robert Jordan
That primal wolf inside of him sparked to wakefulness
~ Robert Jordan
Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...
~ Robert Olmstead
The Piper is coming nearer, he said, he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures?
~ L.M. Montgomery
And on Inkerman yet the wild bramble is gory, And those bleak heights henceforth shall be famous in story,'   quoted
~ L.M. Montgomery
He pipes—he pipes—and we must follow—Jem and Carl and Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen— listen—can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Though Roscoe had been hopeful of staying the night, he was beginning to lose his inclination. Louisa Brooks was almost as scary as wild pigs, in his view.
~ Larry McMurtry
People are leaving the bar right and left—probably afraid of these wild and woolly cowboys from Montana
~ Larry Watson
that path. He said he had seen it yesterday. "It's some old trail," he said. That night by the fire Laura asked again when she would see a papoose, but Pa didn't know. He said you never saw Indians unless they wanted you to see them. He had seen Indians when he was a boy in New York State, but Laura never had. She knew they were wild men with red skins, and their hatchets were called tomahawks. Pa
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray of tools flying. Patrick picked up a chipped chisel and looked at me as if I had attacked his son. Have you never used a broom before?
~ Laurie R. King
As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.
~ Marcello Malpighi
We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Enjoy, smile... wild... peace.
~ C. JoyBell C.
That's what we're afraid of. The wild. Those we can't buy. Those we can't threaten. Those we can't domesticate. Those we can't control.
~ Derrick Jensen
Kali is the forest. She is wild. Gauri is the garden. She is domestic. Kali stays outside the house. Gauri comes inside the house. That is why what is outside is scary and what is inside is not.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Sita is domestic and chaste because Ram pays her attention. Ahalya is unfaithful because Gautam neglects her. Tadaka is wild because her husband is dead and she is attached to no single man. Thus the onus of maintaining a field falls squarely on a farmer. In
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Poe was standing on the border of the clearing, acting most peculiarly. He took a few steps toward the cabin, the paused, shook his head, and marched back out. He repeated the move a few times before stomping off for good. I stood at the window, confused as hell. Why in the wild... and then it hit me, way, way harder than the water when I'd fallen off the boat. Poe liked me.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Louisa asked these questions with a strong, wild, wandering interest peculiar to her; and interest gone astray like a banished creature, and hiding in solitary places.
~ Dickens Charles
his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.
~ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870