#wilde

Out here, everything was open, and the weather was the fabric of the world. ↗

— Erin Mckittrick

#wilderness #home

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#clothing #greeks #humor #soul #wilde

Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium. ↗

— Sigurd F. Olson

#wilderness #life

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#suspence #terror #wilderness #change

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy… ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #art

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#oscar-wilde #insult

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#environment #forests #humanity #trees #wilderness

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder. ↗

— Sarah Chalke

#because #blown #even #everything #fun