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Quotes About Untamed

Beauty, like an animal, doesn't always behave.
~ Eva Brann
I'm a savage. I'm hungry. I'm a beast.
~ Trina
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.
~ Beryl Markham
This is the forest primeval.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are some woodland creatures that, no matter how many bread crumbs you leave out for them ... no matter how patiently you wait ... are never going to be yours. They'll never let themselves be tamed. Because they prefer to run wild and free in the forest.
~ Meg Cabot
Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Yaltha is summed up in these two lines from the novel: "Her mind was an immense feral country that spilled its borders. She trespassed everywhere
~ Sue Monk Kidd
But a wild creature will always go back to the wild, in the end.
~ Susan Cooper
Words at night were feral things.
~ Joy Williams
Everybody has a savage instinct.
~ Wanderlei Silva
Exquisite loneliness Bound of mine own caprice I fly on the wings of an unknown chord That ye hear not, Can not discern My music is weird and untamed Barbarous, wild, extreme, I fly on the note that ye hear not On the chord that ye can not dream. — Ezra Pound, from "Anima Sola," Collected Early Poems (New Directions, 1976)
~ Ezra Pound
Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts.
~ Frances Hardinge
How wild it was, to let it be.
~ T. S. Eliot
I wouldn't call it tamed, laddy-me-love. The lady of Pirate's Swoop shouldn't be tame.
~ Tamora Pierce
The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand
~ Brene Brown
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure
~ Henry David Thoreau
In short, all good things are wild and free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
De la literatura sólo nos atrae lo salvaje. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre para lo domesticado.
~ Henry David Thoreau
all good things are wild and free
~ Henry David Thoreau
Todo lo bueno es libre y salvaje
~ Henry David Thoreau
Rhetoric flourished in Rome when their affairs were in their worst state and when they were shattered by the storms of civil war, just as a field left untamed bears the most flourishing weeds.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
~ Ann Patchett