Unbridled Nature Quotes

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.