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The Wild
«. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.»
«Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
immense, launching, region, region of, remote, salutation, salutations, The Strange, The Wild, untried, watery
«And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
breed, domesticate, domesticated, forest, instincts, packs, primeval, ran, ranged, remembered, The Wild, vague, wild dog
«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
buck, bucks, buck up, chemically, drives, eye tooth, heads of state, head of state, instincts, intimate, leaden, lust, muzzle, muzzled, pack, periods, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, ranging, sounding, stated, stirring, The Pack, The Wild, This Was, warm-blooded, wash
«Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.»
«And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.»
«In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.»
«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»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Adventure,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
aged, beard, depressed, faded, fatalistic, goat, no doubt, plucking, precipices, The Wild, trembling, wild goat