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wildness
«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.»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Poet, Priest)
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bereave, bereaved, bereft, bereft of, long-lived, the Wilderness, weeds, wet, wilderness, wildness
«The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.»
Author: Robert Maclver
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appetite, craves, excursion, festival, festivals, jolt, jolted, normality, occasional, saturnalia, sharpening, way of life, wildness
«To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.»
«We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.»
«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
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Advanced Technology, advancing, beaches, cement, cementing, cements, countryside, every year, Famous Or, glimpses, high-priced, high technology, hotels, jets, meadows, priced, slum, slums, surf, surfing, sweetness, The Beaches, tourists, tropical, vanish, wildness
«Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.»
Author: John Muir
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civilized, fountains, Going Home, irrigate, irrigates, mountain, necessity, nerve, parked, Parks, reservation, Reservations, rivers, River Went, shaken, the Mountain, Thousands, timber, timbered, timbers, tired, useful, wildness
«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.»
«Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
devoured, marrow, wildness