Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
 Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1851). copy citation

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Author Henry David Thoreau
Source Walking
Topic wildness presence
Date 1851
Language English
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““A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian was like a plant bleached by the gardener’s art, compared with a fine, dark green one, growing vigorously in the open fields.” Ben Jonson exclaims,— “How near to good is what is fair!” So I would say,— “How near to good is what is wild!” Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life.” source