Wildness Quotes

(T)here`s a quality of wildness that exists in Ireland that coincides with utter solitude.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that`s a deep expression.

We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind's eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men's wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one's wood-lot to such another's. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.