Wild Quotes

Wildflowers don't grow haphazardly us we are led to believe. They grow in fantastic patterns which are different to each of us you see.

~ Anthony T.hnicks

Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and leaving Weetzie holding her arms crossed over her chest that was taking its time to develope into anything

~ Francesca Lia Block

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.

~ Marcus Du Sautoy

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

~ Jacques Derrida

Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying to catch a falling leaf. Occasionally you may grab one out of the air and hold it in your hands, but now what?

~ Daniel J. Rice

There was a wildness inside him; someday he would capture it. Not to be tamed, but to be released. For only by understanding his mind could it be freed.

~ Daniel J. Rice

A bus drives past and I’m nauseated by a whiff of exhaust. Then rotting fish. The rancid stench of sewage. Is it garbage day? I’m trapped in the pungent fog, in the dreary suburban-style shops, the rat race of city life. The city, even on the west coast, has the power to beat us down, to suck us of passion, to crush our dreams.

~ Shannon Mullen

Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

~ S.a.r.k.

Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.

~ Frances Beinecke

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

~ Clement Clarke Moore

You can't just let nature run wild.

~ Walt Disney

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

~ Jared Diamond

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

~ James Anthony Froude

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

~ Iggy Pop

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

~ Ted Nugent

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

~ Voltaire

I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.

~ Yuliya Snigir

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

~ Eric Betzig

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

~ Aristotle

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

~ Bob Dylan

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

~ Terry Pratchett

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

~ Denis Diderot

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

~ Nick Cave

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

~ Amy Weber

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

~ Christopher Mccandless

I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'

~ Nell Zink