#wilde

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#clears #harvest #imagination #plants #reason

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

But it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to “scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm.” Most of the Pine Cone’s articles, poems, jokes, editorials, and drawings were Aldo’s own. His readers soon realized that the forest animals were as important to him as the trees. His goal was to bring back the “flavor of the wilds. ↗

— Marybeth Lorbiecki

#wilderness #writing #nature

My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as if wishing she could let herself go, let herself lean farther. But she didn't, and I can’t help but respect her for that, even I know her strength is false, propped up by the shaky girders of Old Man Jack. One day soon, those girders will collapse, and her world will crumble, and I know I have to be there when that happens. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#colton #crumble #falling #falling-into-you #free

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ↗

— Alan Alda

#comfort #discover #go #into #intuition

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#human spirit #luxury #necessity #spirit #wilderness

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#defense #idea #needs #only #wilderness

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. ↗

— Alan Alda

#city #comfort #creative #else #ever

To define is to limit. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lord-henry-wotton #wilde #wild

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved. ↗

— Vince Cable

#achieve #anger #apology #attacking #banks