| "Like winds and sunsets, WILD things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, WILD and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television." »Aldo Leopold |
| "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a WILD beast a WILD beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." »Buddha |
| "Why do you lead me a WILD-goose chase" »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Words ought to be a little WILD for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." »John Maynard Keynes |
| "I'd rather get my brains blown out in the WILD than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse." »Craig Volk |
| "It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as WILD dogs." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a WILD beast or a god." »Francis Bacon |
| "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the WILD air" »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are WILD beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "The antiwar movement is a WILD orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Revenge is a kind of WILD justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out." »Francis Bacon |
| "The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a WILD flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "WILD animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." »James Anthony Froude |
| "We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, WILD, and free." »Aldo Leopold |
| "To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a WILD Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." »William Blake |
| "If we didn't live venturously, plucking the WILD goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged." »Virginia |
| "The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and WILD and fierce fanaticism." »John Calhoun |
| "I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a WILD hatred born of love." »August Strindberg |
| "Nobody succeeds beyond his or her WILDest expectations unless he or she begins with some WILD expectations." »Ralph Charell |
| "The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the WILD bats flapped out." »Lance Morrow |
| "Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from WILD creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore." »Simon Pokagon |
| "Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, WILD life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day." »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
| "Uncultivated minds are not full of WILD flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 WILD horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green |
| "Twenty years a child twenty years running WILD twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb |
| "If I lived back in the WILD West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
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