Famous quotes containing the word wild:
“From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savages preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters oer,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (17831835)
“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of mens beginning to redeem themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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