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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
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
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
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All good things are wild, and free. – Henry David Thoreau
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die. – Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee. – Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. – Robert G. Ingersoll
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people. – Louis Adamic
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language? – Ernest Thompson Seton
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. – Isak Dinesen, (Karen Blixen)
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. – D. H. Lawrence
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. – August Strindberg
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself. – D. H. Lawerence
I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. – Craig Volk
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
In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil! – Mehmet Murat ildan
in the university I am a wild man; in the wilds I am a scholar and a poet – J. Frank Dobie
It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. – Mark A. Overby

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