T Quotes
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“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang
“The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.”
“The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
While small birds nestle in the edge below.”
“The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“The Wild Swans at Coole
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans.
The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold,
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake’s edge or pool
Delight men’s eyes, when I awake some day
To find they have flown away”
“The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come after us and audit our accounts.”
“The wild unbounded hills we ranged,
While oft our talk its topic changed,
And, desultory as our way,
Ranged, unconfined from grave to gay.
Even when it flagg'd , as oft will chance,
No effort made to break its trance,
We could right pleasantly pursue
Our thoughts in social silence too”
“The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.”
“The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.”
“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.”
“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”
“The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.”
“The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.”
Source: The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected
“The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“The wilderness calls to the wild heart, inviting it to shed the constraints of the civilized world and remember the ancient pulse of life. Here, among the untrodden paths, the heart dances to the song of stars and streams, untethered and alive. In this sacred place, the wild heart finds not only freedom, but the truth of its belonging.”
“The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.”
Source: The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
“The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.”
“The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.”
“The wilderness is a place for spiritual rebirth.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.”
Source: Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence
“The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future.”
“The wilderness journey is about transformation. For you, it could be a personal, spiritual, or professional drought. A desert season of confusion, frustration, and unproductivity. It's an in between stage. Something significant has ended or begun. Yet it provides opportunity for expansion, wisdom, and joy.”
Source: Sacred Wandering: Growing Your Faith In The Dark
“The wilderness needs your whole attention.”
“The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.”
“The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.”
“The wilderness was a paradisical place of exquisite natural beauty. It was an unpredictable place inhabited by fierce and belligerent tribes. It was an abode of ugly, frightening demons. It was a place of involuntary and unhappy exile from the world of power and pleasure. It was an ideal place for the release from the burden of worldly existence. In exploring the forest as a site of political conflict, killing, and violence, we have to understand all the other things that it was and was not. In doing so, we are taken to the heart of ancient Indian political processes, to fundamental ideas about political and cultural identity, and to the definition of the self and the other.”
Source: Political Violence in Ancient India
“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.”
“The Wilders, of course, paid no attention to her exuberance, continuing to live a frugal existence among their pigs and hens, entertained by a self-re-newing circle of farm cats and their preternaturally gifted Airedale terrier, Nero, who would sit politely at the dinner table like a member of the family, eating off his own plate.”
Source: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“The wildest colts make the best horses.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch
“The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.”
“The wildest version of you is calling to you now. To shine in your full radiance and truth each day. To live the life your Soul imagines.”
Source: Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity
“The wildflowers she waded through were those she recognized from her youth. Chicory, Queen Anne's lace, and black-eyed Susans. An apple tree she and Phoebe had planted by the pond when they were both small had grown into a monster. Though it was only the middle of June, the branches were dripping with fruit. Rather than red or green, the apples were a purple so deep it almost looked black. Brigid plucked one off the tree and took a bite. The flesh underneath was a brilliant white.”
Source: The Women of Wild Hill
“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
“The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“The wildness in them had to brim over.”
“The Wilds aren't safe anymore.”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“The wildwood abides, to be tapped into by different traditions in different ways. Some folks find God in the trees. Some folks find themselves. And some find each other and a connection to the universe that's larger than any one creed's definition of faith.”
Source: Wildwood Magic
“The wildwood is everywhere. It's inside us. It's outside us. And, of course, if you happen to be near any of the more ancient forests, not just in Europe; then, you are in touch with the source itself. But for me, it's about journeying into an inner landscape that is deeply embedded within us. We have a wild nature that most of us have forgotten, but it's there. And it's both light and dark. There are ancient atavistic things that need to be approached with care. But even these, if faced up to, can bring blessings.”
“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”
Source: Strindberg, Five Plays
“The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").”
“The will for deed I doe accept.”
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly, mediated only secondarily by consciousness. Instinctive sexuality is at our core, interfering constantly with the life of the intellect. To be an individual expression of this will is to lead a life of continual desire, deficiency, and suffering. Pleasure or satisfaction exists only relative to a felt lack; it is negative, merely the cessation of an episode of striving or suffering, and has no value of itself. Nothing we can achieve by conscious act of will alters the will to life within us. There is no free will. Human actions, as part of the natural order, are determined [....] As individual parts of the empirical world we are ineluctably pushed through life by a force inside us which is not of our choosing, which gives rise to needs and desires we can never fully satisfy, and is without ultimate purpose. Schopenhauer concludes that it would have been better not to exist—and that the world itself is something whose existence we should deplore rather than celebrate.”
“The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one's will and one's inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one's organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.”
Source: Roderick Hudson
“The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“The Will Immanent - there was a purpose in everything, especially in this imperfect world. Purpose was the gift of imperfection”
Source: Traitor Son
“The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.”
“The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.”