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“What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.”

“There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst of his woman's emotional storms. When he stays present with her, and loves her through the layers of wildness and closure, then she feels his trustability, and she can relax.”

Men Feels Love Is Pleasure Consciousness Emotional And Love Storm Relax Midst Feminine Layers Closure Wildness

Author:David Deida

“The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.”

Doe Mystery Recognition Gardener Wildness

Book:Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.”

People Humans Dream Secret Talent Ambition Ordinary Saint Desperate Excess Moderation Ordinary People Vitality Good Will Wildness Exuberance

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”

Faces Poetry Voice Nature Silence Crazy Curiosity Delight Spontaneous Spontaneity Being Crazy Psychotic Wildness Nature Love

Author:Robert Bly

“Inspired by John Muir's A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, John Davis walks, bikes, and kayaks on a 'voyage of recovery' from the Florida Keys to southeastern Canada. He bears witness not only to wilderness that still sustains bears, panthers, and bobcats but also to the possibilities for connecting further wildways in the eastern United States. His inspiring journey reminds us all that we must rediscover the wildness we still have before we lose it forever.”

“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”

Facts Spirit Bigger Mood Vastness Wildness

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.”

Found Laughing Paper Gold Shining Silver Packages Wildness

Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“Wildness is my suiting scene.”

Nature Scene Wildness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)

“In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.”

Needs Nature Natural Possibility Bones Hills Scent Curves Wildness Shoreline

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder