#wilde

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#know #old #sad #want #young

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#anywhere #brave #columbia #compass #district

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#find #friend #honest #our #travelers

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. ↗

— John Strachan

#ago #appointed #bishop #diffuse #dominions

Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. ↗

— Steve Mann

#clothing #damage #naked #our #shoes

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work. ↗

— Steve Carell

#i #never #thought #well #wildest

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#bewildered #bewitched #bothered #i

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#i #kid #put #seven #show

The ages live in history through their anachronisms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #wilde #age

Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men: when the forces of nature were still untamed, the Powers that may have haunted a primeval universe not yet withdrawn. To this day he thinks of what he termed years later in a sermon 'savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.' ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#monster #monstrous #nature #primeval #primeval-man