Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the...

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed about the animals themselves. The precise details—how and where each was born, how...

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries– escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky — usually end up back on the...

All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the wildness of the world and behold its beauty, but that we must first...

Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must...

In the cage is the lion. She paces with her memories. Her body is a record of her past. As she moves back and forth, one may see it all: the lean frame, the muscular...

America is like a roomy cage; just enough choice-space where the animal doesn’t go wild and feels free.

Lirralei was a girl of storm–winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.

Inside of every good person there is also something very wild.

This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness...

I think that people tend to associate the word “wild” with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word “wild” with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven’t been hurt...

The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure.

Enjoy, smile… wild… peace.

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There’s enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

In the world that we live in— purity and innocence are the true strengths. It is strength to live in a world like this and remain pure of heart, it is strength to live in...

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with...

She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

If mind belongs to humans alone, then stones, trees, and streams become mere objects of human tinkering. We can plunder the earth’s resources with impunity, treating creeks and mountaintops in Kentucky or rivers in India...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...

And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently — or, to state it another way, it may...

We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild,...