“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”

“With wild eyes that had seen freedom.”

“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

“And in this development lies the origin of civilization.”

“Here was the real horror, Degrandpre thought, this breaking of barriers. Civilization, after all, was the making of divisions, of walls and fences to parse the chaotic wild into ordered cells of human imagination. Wilderness invades the garden and reason is overthrown.”

“He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.”

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

“Freedom lies beneath reality.”

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

“No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.”