Rewild Quotes

#1. With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

#2. When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.

Lorde

#3. The Lord is my 'Strong Fortress'.
The Lord is my 'Solid Rock'.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Alexander Pope

#5. I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

Earl Weaver

#6. I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

David Platt

#7. To an evolutionary psychologist, the universal extravagance of religious rituals, with their costs in time, resources, pain and privation, should suggest as vividly as a mandrills bottom that religion may be adaptive. - MAREK KOHN

Richard Dawkins

#8. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

James Baldwin

#9. Thirty million, mostly fools.
[When asked the population of England]

Thomas Carlyle