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

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagin...

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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...

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Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild ...

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You can't just let nature run wild.

I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it ne...

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so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream

There are women’s voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change...

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

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

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She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough ...

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No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilizat...

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As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky....

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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...

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

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

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born...

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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and...

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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

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

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll ru...

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But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat int...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild

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

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

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Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all ...

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If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wi...

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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom an...

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance ...

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I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once.

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

How wild it was, to let it be.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West ...

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The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a momen...

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I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...

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