Wild Quotes - page 6

None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. (John Muir)
There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties. View quote
John Muir
To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be. View quote
John Muir
All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best. View quote
John Muir
God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild. View quote
John Muir
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns. View quote
John Muir
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life. View quote
John Muir
Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!- But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding. View quote
Conrad Aiken
I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. View quote
William Faulkner
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. (Bertolt Brecht)
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. View quote
John Steinbeck
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. View quote
Stephen King
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies, For all their broomsticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. View quote
William Butler Yeats
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. View quote
Boris Pasternak
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. View quote
William Blake
We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with a wild god.) View quote
Carl Jung
Rowena: I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. View quote
H. G. Wells
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll always be what he was born: a wild animal. View quote
George Lincoln Rockwell
Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised. (Vanna Bonta)
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. View quote
Karl Kraus
Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow. View quote
Harry Turtledove
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. View quote
Erma Bombeck