Wild Animal Quotes - Page 2

• In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Hunting, Animal

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

  John Marin

  Art, Animal, Trying

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

  Tristram Stuart

  Animal, Numbers, Heartless

  "Happy Hunting" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Future, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.144, Penguin

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• Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

  Frances Beinecke

  Fate, Animal, Community

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• Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stupid, Home

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.308, e-artnow

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• not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

  Erma Bombeck

  Animal, Television, Bears

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.53, Fawcett

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• I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Strong, Animal

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

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• I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.

  Whitley Strieber

  Powerful, Animal, Personality

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• My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

  Kesha

  Animal, Whales, Sea

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Attitude, Cat

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Mean, Men

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• Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Environment, Involved

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• Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

  Bill Bailey

  Animal, Fruit, Stealing

  "Bill Bailey: Tinselworm". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

  Enid Blyton

  Children, Swimming, Animal

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Animal, Giving

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• Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal

  Dani Pedrosa

  Animal, Thinking, Giving

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• I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

  Brian Blessed

  Animal, Awful, Bloody

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

  S. Parkes Cadman

  Animal, Clothes, Peculiar

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• We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Art, Animal, Kind

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview With Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

  George Ayittey

  Animal, People, Hippo

  "Obama’s Victory Shames Africa" by George Ayittey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2009.

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• Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

  Louis Leakey

  Recovery, Animal, Skeletons

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  'Just So Stories' (1902) 'The Cat that Walked by Himself'

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