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“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.” John Muir, The Mountains of California

“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.” Jack London, White Fang

“It was rejoicing then in its gayest colors, untrodden, hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.” John Muir, The Mountains of California

“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“you can'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 woods.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“all good things are wild and free.” Henry David Thoreau, Walking

“still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” Jack London, White Fang

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