"The Call of the Wild" Quotes
A domesticated dog in the Yukon wilderness rediscovers its primal instincts and struggles for survival.
classics | 164 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
He was in the process of working it out in his mind - the inevitable failure of the Wild.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest.
He would not sell the dog, but he would buy it. And he did.
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
He was as loyal as a woman.
Dogs are not always loyal.
He was old, and life was no longer a vital proposition with him.
It was the call, the many-noted call, the call of the Wild.
