Quotes for All
You know I think so many of us live outside our bodies. My dream is that people will find a way back home, into their bodies, to connect with the earth, to connect with each other, to connect with the poor, to connect with the broken, to connect with the needy, to connect with people … Read more
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. Edward Abbey
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. Eban Goodstein
… the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can–the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn’t even flicker. Frederick Buechner
In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on. Francesca Lia Block
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat … Read more
I liked the South-West straightaway – the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all. Deny King
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don’t know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you’ve built a stone wall against it, set … Read more
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness. David W. Orr