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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