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Quotes About Wild

The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.
~ Gene Doucette
Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.
~ Gene Doucette
Silently night appears, a wild thing bleeding Which slowly sinks to earth on the hillside.
~ Georg Trakl
I'm a weremongoose. I'm fucking fast. When I get bored, I play with my pet cobra, and I don't mean that figuratively.
~ Ilona Andrews
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
~ Immanuel Kant
She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature.
~ Iris Murdoch
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
~ Isaac Asimov
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Dime, ¿qué es lo que piensas hacer con tu única vida salvaje y preciosa? MARY OLIVER, «The Summer Day»
~ Isabel Allende
I moved at age 22 to Montana to be able to walk in really wild woods, where the chances of being killed by a bear or mountain lion are not zero.
~ Michael Finkel
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.
~ Peter Singer
My favourite animal would probably be - probably be a dingo. Because I like how in the night you can - at the zoo, you can hear them howl and stuff like that. It's just amazing.
~ Bindi Irwin
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! the flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
~ Peter Newell
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
To seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase, a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.
~ Ada Bethune
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
~ Peter De Vries
Donald Trump behaving like a wild man. I mean, I just can't imagine that people want a human tornado sitting in the oval office.
~ William Weld
I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
~ Jenny Downham
Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'm a cowboy, wild and free. No little filly can ever tame a man like me.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
~ Susan Polis Schutz
With wild eyes that had seen freedom.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Non somos nós propietarios da vida, nós só cabalgamos un bicho salvaxe e imprevisíbel.
~ Suso de Toro
take a shower, and this morning my brain is not assembling lists of supplies for the wild, but trying to figure out how
~ Suzanne Collins
The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.
~ Suzanne Finnamore