Animals In Nature Quotes - Page 3

• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Ignorance, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.557, Library of America

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• Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

  Robert Breault

  Nature, Believe, Animal

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• Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Animal, Ecosystems

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• Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.

  Sy Montgomery

  Nature, Animal, People

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• It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

  Sy Montgomery

  Bullying, Nature, Children

  Sy Montgomery (2006). “The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?

  Sy Montgomery

  Nature, Children, Animal

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• Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

  Laozi

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Nature, Memories

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.176, Diversion Books

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• I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

  Kiki Smith

  Animal, Way, Introducing

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Nature, Regret

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• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Animal, Path

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• God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

  Anna Sewell

  Nature, Men, Animal

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.45, e-artnow

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• Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the human condition. The animals could do very well without us, but we cannot do without them.

  Gerald Carson

  Nature, Loneliness, Humility

  Gerald Carson (1972). “Men, beasts, and gods: a history of cruelty and kindness to animals”

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• If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans.

  Richard Rohr

  Loyalty, Unconditional Love, Animal

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.124, SPCK

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

  Frans Lanting

  Mean, Eye, Animal

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• What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Animal, Duplicity

  "Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1893.

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• The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

  Michael Crichton

  Philosophy, Animal, Reality

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Congo”, p.166, Vintage

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