"He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, i…"

"The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildnes…"

"Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One w…"

"The weapons with which we have gained our most important victories, which should be handed down as heirlooms from fat…"

"A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower d…"

"There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild a…"

"How much more fertile a Nature, at least, has Grecian mythology its root in than English literature! Mythology is the…"

"The partridge loves peas, but not those that go with her into the pot."

"The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet."

"Who but the Evil One has cried "Whoa!" to mankind?"