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Quotes About Wild

Come here, wild thing," -Nick Allegrezza
~ Rachel Gibson
I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scrabbling about, every part of her seemed a separate animal. Her arms and legs, her hands, her head, each was a lopped off bit of some creature wild to return to itself, but blind to the proper way of making that return.
~ Ray Bradbury
Martin Nilsson, one of the great authorities on Greek religious antiquity, writes that Artemis was the total Great Goddess and represented all the powers of nature. With the differentiation of the goddesses and the departmentalizing of powers, Artemis came to be associated with the nature world and the forest; she became the Mother of the Wild Things.
~ Joseph Campbell
All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.
~ Joseph Conrad
Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild - and perhaps with as profound a meaning as the sound of bells in a Christian country.
~ Joseph Conrad
A deadened burst of mighty splashes and snorts reached us from afar, as though an ichthyosaurus had been taking a bath of glitter in the great river.
~ Joseph Conrad
Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.
~ Joseph Conrad
She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.
~ Joy Harjo
And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland thought she was the most magnificent creature he'd ever beheld; a wild, beautiful, enraged angel of retribution, her chest rising and falling with fury as she courageously confronted an enemy who towered over her.
~ Judith McNaught
McCarthy in his typical wild swinging fashion, with no regard for facts but with a hold on his audience that is frightening
~ Judy Blume
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
~ Walt Disney
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures- a stallion born wild- and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.
~ Walter Farley
The Black was looking out on the open sea; his ears pricked forward, his thin-skinned nostrils quivering, his black mane flowing like windswept flame. Alec could not turn his eyes away; he could not believe such a perfect creature existed.
~ Walter Farley
beautiful head. The head was that of the wildest of all wild creatures—a stallion born wild—and it was beautiful, savage, splendid. A stallion with a wonderful physical perfection that matched his savage, ruthless spirit.
~ Walter Farley
high and none of the pasture fences could hold him. He therefore ordered the old man to hobble him for fear the young stallion would rake
~ Walter Farley
Aber dein Gehirn ist ein Dschungel wie jedes andere Gehirn auch. Ein wilder, gefährlicher, gnaden- und gesetzloser Urwald voller unberechenbarer Kreaturen. Pferkte Ordnung und totales Chaos, Diktatur und Anarchie, freier Wille und irrer Zwang, Fressen und Gefressenwerden - all das existiert darin. [...] jedes Gehirn ist anders verrückt. Aber auf keinen Fall ist es nur - auch nicht deins.
~ Walter Moers
O Caledonia! stern and wild,Meet nurse for a poetic child!Land of brown heath and shaggy wood;Land of the mountain and the flood!
~ Walter Scott
Watching wild landscapes I forget distance and come to the water's edge.
~ Wang Wei
She felt like a tiger in a cage, trying to burst free.
~ Wendy Orr
The future had become a fierce, wild creature.
~ Daniel Price
If you see a teenager in the wild, be gentle. Every single one, even the coolest among them, is navigating the world like a twitching sack of snakes stuck in the molting phase.
~ Danielle Henderson
Well – at least Binky's in a zoo.' 'Yes, he's in a zoo, where they keep wild hunting dogs and lions. They all get on so well, it's like Madagascar 3 in here.
~ Danny Wallace