You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the w...oods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree. And then to the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,--to r...egard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than as a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We would not always be soothing and taming nature, breaking the horse and the ox, but sometimes ride the horse wild and chase the ...buffalo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had made about fifty miles this day with sail and oar, and now, far in the evening, our boat was grating against the bulrushes ...of its native port, and its keel recognized the Concord mud, where some semblance of its outline was preserved in the flattened flags which had scarce yet erected themselves since our departure; and we leaped gladly on shore, drawing it up and fastening it to the wild apple tree, whose stem still bore the mark which its chain had worn in the chafing of the spring freshets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for... it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »