This Was the Calling
My sticky notes from Wild by Jay Griffiths:
This was the calling, the vehement, irresistible demand of the feral angel -- take flight. All that is wild is winged--life, mind and language--and knows the feel of air.
and:
I was following that wild call, familiar to us all: the young, the old, the sad, the curious, the footloose and all who yearn just to bugger off for a while. It is an ancient need, made heroic in the past.