Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Evil, Needs

• The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Heart, Animal, Frozen

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

• She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Tanks, Common

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.18, Harper Collins

• From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wise, Eye, Animal

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Machines, Intention

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

• A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out. Everyone rushed after it, shouting "Stop! Stop! Why did you do that?" "Becuase I am a panda," said the panda. "That's what pandas do. If you don't believe me, look in the dictionary." So they looked in the dictionary and sure enough they found Panda: Racoon-like animal of Asia. Eats shoots and leaves.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Believe, Men, Animal

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