Top 133 Wildness Quotes & Sayings

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

Wildness is my suiting scene.

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

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.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

We need the tonic of wildness.

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.

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

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

I draw great comfort from remoteness and wildness. I suppose that is why I have always felt the lure of the Arctic so acutely.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

Suffolk has something more than the coziness of Kent and Surrey. There is a hint of wildness in its tamed beauty, and the tang of the North Sea is never far away.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

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.

In wildness is the salvation of the world.

Wildness was ever sounding in our ears, and Nature saw to it that besides school lessons some of her own lessons should be learned, perhaps with a view to the time when we should be called to wander in wildness to our heart’s content.

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

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

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.

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

Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

To me, when something's really funny, there's, like, a wildness to it, and it's very close to the wildness of something potentially tragic or gross. It's all very close to each other when you have that extreme level of feeling.

And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within.

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

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.

I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.