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Quotes About Untamed

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
~ Wes Fesler
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
~ Alison Lohman
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
~ The Rolling Stones
Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
It's not just what she does. It's what she is. Feral, and for her the moon's always full.
~ Nora Roberts
If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Felicity Jenkins is barely a girl. She's more like a wolverine in a dress.
~ Chuck Wendig
Oh no, the untamed wilds of third-world-country Canada. Who knows, maybe these pills are just beaver pelts and maple syrup.
~ Chuck Wendig
There is no denying the wild horse in us.
~ Virginia Woolf
I would stare at the honest brightness of the gasoline paraphernalia against the splendid green of oaks or at a distant hill scrambling out — scarred but still untamed — from the wilderness of agriculture that was trying to swallow it.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nature is not human hearted.
~ Lao Tzu
Sharp! yes, her tongue is like a new-set razor. She's quite original in her talk too; one of those untaught wits that help to stock a country with proverbs. I told you that capital thing I heard her say about Craig—that he was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. Now that's an Æsop's fable in a sentence.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859
In terms of aesthetic values, the new mathematics of fractal geometry brought hard science in tune with the peculiarly modern feeling for untamed, uncivilized, undomesticated nature.
~ James Gleick
Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
~ James Joyce
She was a beautiful savage.
~ R.H. Sin
No, she is wilder, and more hard withal Than beast, or bird, or tree, or stony wall.
~ Thomas Kyd
Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I too am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable.
~ Walt Whitman
I too am not a bit tamed . . . . I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
~ Walt Whitman
Wildlife is just that --- wild life.
~ Heather Graham
It was impossible to tame, like leeches.
~ Lemony Snicket
Just because I'm a librarian doesn't mean I'm at all tame.
~ James Turner