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"Then a wolf sang in the forest. She lifted her head. She suddenly knew frost and running and black stillness, and a platinum moon, red feasts and wild hymnings, lovers with quicksilver eyes and the race of the ice and wind and stars smashed under the hard soles of her four feet."

—Tanith Lee, Wolfland

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Louise Glück, from "Timor Mortis" in Poems 1962-2012

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"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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"An animal that could have devoured you yet chose instead to let you into the flank-quivering pulse of its exotic wildness."

Samantha Harvey, "Orbital"

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Aron Wiesenfeld

Lost Kingdom

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A Yearning for Eden

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb (...) They shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah

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Choose an animal over a man anytime and every time..choose a devil ,ghost,demon ,vampire anything really over a man.Man are ahhh im out of words ,how much should i hate them...is it humanely possible to have this much hatred.

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Segni di Lusso - Vogue Italia (1990)

By Ellen von Unwerth

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"Sweet as the first wild violets, she, To her wild self"

—Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride

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"So long as men-folk keep away. “Not near, not near!” her eyes beseech When one of us comes within reach. The women say that beasts in stall Look round like children at her call. I’ve hardly heard her speak at all."

—Charlotte Mew, The Farmer's Bride

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Sharada Tolton

"wild beasts guard the body of a martyr!"

colored pencil on renaissance paper. 12 x 18"

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“I learned about the sacred art of self-decoration with monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.

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“I am the forest, I am ancient. I treasure the stag, I treasure the deer. I shelter you from storm, I shelter you from snow. I resist the frost, I keep the source. I nurse the earth, I am always there. I build your house, I kindle your hearth. Therefore, you people, hold me dear.”

— Inscription found in a 17th century forester’s house in Lower Saxony, Germany (via inatt)

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Day 22 of very late #inktober, using the prompts STRIPED HYENA from #faunatober2023 and POMEGRANATE from #hartober23

I wasn’t very creative with this one. I literally just drew a hyena with a pomegranate. BUT both those things are fun to draw, as is the idea of a hyena enjoying some pome juice, so, here we are.

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The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell

1900

Houghton, Mifflin and Co.

Boston and New York

Source : archive.org

Artist : Fanny Y. Cory