I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.
- Poppy Z Brite
Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.
- Steve Brown
We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
- Joan Didion
spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know
- Ani Difranco
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
- Aldo Leopold
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
- Aldo Leopold
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
- Denise Richards
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
- Maurice Sendak
But the wild things cried, Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!
- Maurice Sendak
...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
- Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
- Maurice Sendak
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
- Maurice Sendak
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn't so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It's wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.
- Catherynne M Valente
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostnot an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
- David Wroblewski
- Wendell Berry
Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.
- Poppy Z Brite
Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.
- Steve Brown
We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
- Joan Didion
spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know
- Ani Difranco
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
- Aldo Leopold
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
- Aldo Leopold
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
- Denise Richards
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
- Maurice Sendak
But the wild things cried, Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!
- Maurice Sendak
...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
- Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
- Maurice Sendak
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
- Maurice Sendak
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn't so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It's wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.
- Catherynne M Valente
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostnot an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
- David Wroblewski