Top 100 In The Wild Quotes
#1. A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to hunt and to choose its own prey; to look for and find its own mate; to fight for and hold its own territory; and to die where it was born - in the wild. It should have the same rights as we have.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#2. That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
Scott Westerfeld
#3. I've heard that the two plants that make Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) in the Amazon, are increasingly difficult to find in the wild.
Zoe Helene
#4. Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#5. You are a rose bush left out in the wild, scraping for survival. You have fought for everything you have, and you thrive on the struggle. You're called to it. The harder things are, the better you get.
Denise Grover Swank
#6. Picture two lovers side by side who sleep and dream and wake to hold the real and the imagined world body by body, word by word in the wild halo of their thought
Gwen Harwood
#7. Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.
Diana Wynne Jones
#8. A Persian fairy tale tells of the Three Princes of Serendip, who "were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of."7 Creativity in the wild operates much like that.
Daniel Goleman
#9. I find a source of love in everything that breathes, moves, touches, whispers, smiles. I wake up everyday to search and find love in the wild dream of loneliness.
Harshada Pathare
#10. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.
Charles Darwin
#12. 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
#13. No aristocrat would sit in the wild grass to dream. Aristocrats have gardens for that, if they dream at all.
Sheri S. Tepper
#14. Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben Jonson
#15. These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
Tippi Hedren
#16. Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
Pablo Neruda
#17. RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
Catherynne M Valente
#18. I have faced Death. I have been caught in the wild weed tangles of Her hair, seen the gleam of her jade eyes. I will go when it is time - no choice! - but now I want life.
Keri Hulme
#19. It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
Michael Pollan
#20. I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon.
William Faulkner
#21. I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#22. Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.
Kathy Reichs
#23. She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.
Patricia A. McKillip
#24. We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.
Fiona Wood
#25. In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.
Mason Cooley
#26. I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
Dan Simmons
#27. Me! And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.
Norm Dicks
#29. I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.
Jackie Collins
#30. The constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?
Bill McKibben
#31. To those who serve to protect the exotic animals in the rainforest. Thanks for making it possible for so many of them to remain in their natural habitat and for stopping those who are destroying the animals or transporting them from their homes in the wild.
Terry Spear
#32. In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
Jodi Picoult
#33. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears; he was aware of their existence, but he 'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to.
John Green
#34. Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
Eddie Izzard
#35. I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures - I felt I had become more of a creature than a girl. I could handle myself in the wild.
Aspen Matis
#36. I'm obsessed with nature and living in the wild, which I just think is crazy. Imagine if a bear attacked you! That's an actual possible way you could die.
Chelsea Peretti
#37. In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.
Paul Stamets
#38. It's just hard to go from seeing elephants living their lives in the wild and not being bothered by humans, to seeing them put in a bunker every night and then being forced to take assholes like us on rides.
Chelsea Handler
#39. But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it.
Jack London
#40. But there's this thing I feel when I meet another Jewish person in the wild. It's like a secret invisible high five.
Becky Albertalli
#41. Number of chimpanzees in the wild has dropped to perhaps half of what it was fifty years ago,
Elizabeth Kolbert
#43. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
Heinz R. Pagels
#44. He had been lost somewhere in the wild borderlands of nineteen, half in love with his friends with a love passing the love of women, desperate for some mystical rite that would reverse time and put their disintegrating private world back together.
Tana French
#45. You, me, the animals in the wild, the animal at your feet, the animal on your plate, the person next to you - We are all one We are all holy cows Moo
David Duchovny
#46. Is the world really a better place now that nothing is considered bad? People just do what they want, with anyone. How is that different from what animals do in the wild?
Diana Palmer
#47. I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
James Geary
#48. Shockingly, the hot, hetero, single manny is like a red panda. Rarely spotted in the wild.
Lauren Blakely
#49. It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
Art Wolfe
#50. There is something else I am after, out here in the wild. I am searching for an even more elusive prey ... something that can only be found through the help of wilderness. I am looking for my heart.
John Eldredge
#51. Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking.
Mark Shand
#52. It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans De Waal
#53. Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed - or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.
Patricia Briggs
#54. Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
William Butler Yeats
#55. I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
Jane Goodall
#56. Elske screamed, too. But when Elske screamed, it was the war cry of the Volkaric that came out of her mouth, a howling like the voice of a wolf. The cry wound around the narrow streets as if they were in the wild and merciless northlands.
Cynthia Voigt
#57. Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
Jack Hanna
#58. I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.
Tom Felton
#59. I don't care about my face! I'm tired of being stupid, and everybody keeping me stupid just for the sake of my face. Even if it means I have to run off and live in the wild caves with a bag over my head, I still want to know what's going on. I need to know.
Frances Hardinge
#60. As in the wild there were predators and prey, so, too, did they exist among men in towns and cities. The hardworking peasants were the grazers, and the thieves were the starving coyotes.
Kel Kade
#61. Ben sighed loudly. "Can you help Tory or not?"
Jason's cool slipped a notch. "If you don't need anything, why are you here?"
"I'm studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to observe one up close.
Kathy Reichs
#62. Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
Yann Martel
#63. Sometimes, in the course of long summer evenings, the friends would take a stroll together in the Wild Wood, now successfully tamed so far as they were concerned; and it was pleasing to see how respectfully they were greeted by the inhabitants, and how
Kenneth Grahame
#65. Life in the wild, as I'm observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.
Fennel Hudson
#66. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
Oscar Wilde
#68. It is a mystery to civilized men how lost boys and girls can adapt to life in the wild, but children are capable of a great deal more than men give them credit for.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#69. Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
David Mamet
#70. It's nice to see you. Aimee calls you Bigfoot, by the way."
"Bigfoot?"
"Yeah, you know, like a mythical creature that people say they've seen in the wild but no one knows for sure if it's real. That's you ...
Tracy Brogan
#71. House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.
Uwe Boll
#72. I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
David Wenham
#73. It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.
Michael Lewis
#74. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.
Willie Nelson
#75. I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.
Shailene Woodley
#76. It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
Tom Bodett
#77. In the pursuit of acquiring Treasures, we lose the ONE treasure that we truly possess - Life. Let us not lose Life in the wild pursuit of other things.-RVM
R.v.m.
#78. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible ... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.
Wendell Berry
#79. We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller
#80. She had wondered, when he'd looked into her eyes and said that he'd had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he'd been looking into for all those years. Who'd been his mirror.
Now she knew.
Cassandra Clare
#81. Unlike the Jukel, he had not been raised among the Tigani (Gypsies who inhabited eastern Romania). Revered, protected, and educated. He had been born in the wild. The offspring of a werewolf to werewolf mating. A Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf).
Shirley A. Martin
#82. Intense stereotypies - stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing - almost never occur in the wild,
Temple Grandin
#83. As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
Henry David Thoreau
#84. I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.
Jane Goodall
#85. I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong..
Ray Romano
#86. People blanch to see "fish meal" or "meat meal" on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal
which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones
most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.
Mary Roach
#87. That experience of being in the wild in a place where life initially began for all creatures gave me a overwhelming sense of connection.
Jillian Hervey
#88. In my life, I had heard hundreds of coyotes and even more dogs, but never anything like this except in television shows. Wolves had been extirpated from the Northeast more than a century ago. Never in my life had I expected to hear them howling in the wild mountains of New England. ((c) 2016, p 239)
Paul Doiron
#89. He was like a panther in the wild. Beautiful to look at. Far too dangerous to approach.
Darynda Jones
#90. Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.
Olaf Stapledon
#91. In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.
Jodi Picoult
#92. When winter first begins to bite and stones crack in the frosty night, when pools are black and trees are bare, 'tis evil in the Wild to fare.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. Our species had to engage in complex cooperative behavior in order to survive in the wild, and - as I keep reminding my teenage children - pointing and grunting get you only so far.
Leonard Mlodinow
#95. My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt
#96. One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
Diane Ackerman
#97. If a tactic has led to failure, then persisting with it unquestioningly, in the wild hope of a different outcome, is nothing
Amish Tripathi
#98. However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.
Jane Goodall
#99. Because that's what it would catch in the wild, a boar, right? I can't wait to see a pack of bunnycats take down a wild hog with those short tiny legs. Wouldn't the boar be surprised?"
Everybody was a comedian.
"May be if I oink loud enough, it'll leap across the beam and try to devour me.
Ilona Andrews
#100. In the wild, a mother and daughter stay together until one of them dies.
Jodi Picoult
