Quotes with wildness

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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• In wildness is the preservation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• preservation
• meadow-hen
• whispering
• wilderness
• booming
• wilder

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