Wild World Quotes

• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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  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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Powerful, Philosophy, Sunset

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• "Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

  Patrick Ness

  Animal, Stories, Taught

  "A Monster Calls". Book by Patrick Ness, May 5, 2011.

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• Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

  Cat Stevens

  Baby, Reality, Hard

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• We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

  Simon Barnes

  Meaningful, Nature, People

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• Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

  Patrick Ness

  Animal, Stories, Wild Animal

  "The ultimate top 10 Patrick Ness quotes". www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2015.

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• Stories don’t always have happy endings.

  Patrick Ness

  Stories, Happy Endings

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• All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Sea, Land

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.299, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

  J. G. Holland

  Work, Men, Records

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.113

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• In this wild world the fondest and the best
  Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

  George Crabbe

  Adversity, World, Distress

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• It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.

  Lee Wulff

  Men, Sea, Fishing

  Lee Wulff (1986). “Trout on a fly”, Lyons Press

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• But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Leaving, Lost, Dear

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.110, Penguin

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• Beyond the Wild Wood comes the wild world,"said the Rat."And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going' nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Woods, Rats, Matter

  Kenneth Grahame (2008). “The wind in the willows”

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• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  Kathleen Raine

  Lying, Farewell, Lakes

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.20, SteinerBooks

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