Wild Animal Quotes - Page 3

• I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Cat, Animal, Views

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not give the same right to the bear. It is because the bear is dangerous. Neither the bear nor the deer have rights. We humans give them rights. Taking in account our own security, we give to some animals some rights and deny the same to other animals.

  Ali Sina

  Animal, Rights, Giving

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  War, Men, Animal

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  Aristotle

  Children, Animal, Brave

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."

  Brooke Medicine Eagle

  Beautiful, God, Mother

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• Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the
  men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the
  Lord.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Animal, Men

  Saint Francis of Assisi, Aeterna Press (1906). “Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi”, p.30, Aeterna Press

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• To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

  Karl Kraus

  Marriage, Animal, Law

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Change, Animal, Order

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Animal, Cities, Car

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Humor, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.197, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Maybe the last human being on Earth won't die of starvation or exposure or as a meal of wild animals. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive.

  Rick Yancey

  Animal, Meals, Alive

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.28, Penguin

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• The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

  Charles Galton Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

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• Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

  Chief Joseph

  Mistake, Animal, Thinking

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• God's grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in the arena the wild animals did not touch the righteous ones, but by no means were they all preserved untouched.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Struggle, Mean, Humility

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• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Animal

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• 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.

  Isak Dinesen

  Animal, People, Silence

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

  Jeff Kinney

  Taken, Animal, Steps

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• Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

  Daniel Handler

  Animal, Sound, Torn Apart

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