Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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.
The very wildness of my sorrow
Tells me I yet have innate force;
My track of life has been too narrow,
Effort shall trace a broader course.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.
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.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home that wildness isa necessity and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
What I have been preparing to say is this, in wildness is the preservation of the world ... Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued by man, its presence refreshes him.... When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. In short, all good things are wild and free.
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest. . .
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
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.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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