Wildness Quotes

• 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.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Green
  • England
  • Desolation

• Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Knows

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

  

  Deny King
  • Down
  • Mountains
  • Scenery

• 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.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Space
  • Behinds
  • Empty

• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Health
  • Spiritual
  • Possibility

• We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.

  

  Alice Notley
  • Words
  • Cure
  • Wildness

• She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Bands
  • Skinny
  • Temples