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(noun) The undomesticated state of a wild animal Example: "After mending the lion's leg, we returned him to the wild."

21 QUOTES
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold."
— John Muir
"But we are governed more than we know, and most when we are wildest."
— John Muir
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
— Socrates
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
— Gautama Buddha
"There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."
— Plato
"Nothing dollarable is safe."
— John Muir
"I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion."
— Voltaire
"This is Nature's own reservation, and every lover of wildness will rejoice with me that by kindly frost it is so well defended."
— John Muir
"In God's wildness lies the hope of the world."
— John Muir
"Wildness is a necessity."
— John Muir
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