Wild World Quotes:

"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

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

topic: Animal, Wild World, Stories

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

- Patrick Ness

topic: Wild World, Stories, Happy Endings

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

- Cat Stevens

topic: Baby, Reality, Wild World

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Nature, World, Beautiful Nature, National Parks, Nature Beauty

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Beautiful Nature, Spirit Of Life

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

topic: Powerful, Philosophy, Sunset, Sunrise And Sunset, Mountain Streams

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

- Simon Barnes

topic: Meaningful, People, World, Wild World

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

topic: Animal, Stories, Taught, Wild World

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

topic: Beautiful, Sea, Land, Wild World, World Is Beautiful

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

- J. G. Holland

topic: Work, Men, Records, Wild World

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

- George Crabbe

topic: Adversity, World, Distress, Wild World

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

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

topic: Men, Lakes, Sea, Inquisitive, Wild Creatures

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

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

topic: Leaving, World, Lost, Wild World

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

topic: World, Woods, Rats, Wild World, Wind In The Willows

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

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

topic: Lying, Farewell, Lakes, Deserted, Wild World