Jungle Quotes - Page 16

• I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Silly, Blow, Night

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Complete Edition with the Original Illustrations by John Lockwood Kipling): Classic of children's literature from one of the most popular writers in England, known for Kim, Just So Stories, Captain Courageous, Stalky & Co, Plain Tales from the Hills, Soldier’s Three”, p.16, e-artnow

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

  Deborah Moggach

  Falling In Love, Hair, People

  4 Copy quote

• Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Intelligent, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Military, War, Struggle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.931, Best Books on

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

  George McGovern

  Military, War, Failure

  1973 Lecture at Oxford University, 21 Jan.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

  Paul Washer

  Son, Men, Blood

  41 Copy quote

• That tuft of jungle feathers,
  That animal eye,
  Is just what you say. That savage of fire,
  That seed,
  Have it your way. The world is ugly,
  And the people are sad.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Animal, Fire

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Home, People, Want

  6 Copy quote

• Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, People

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

  212 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

  Chanakya

  Spring, Lying, Elephants

  12 Copy quote

• The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.

  Werner Herzog

  Hurt, Moving, Ideas

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

  Neon Hitch

  Home, House, Down And

  "Discovery: Neon Hitch" by Kristin Studeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 28, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Night, Men, Lions

  Sheldon Vanauken (2011). “A Severe Mercy”, p.17, Harper Collins

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.

  Alan Watts

  Two, Space, Risk

  9 Copy quote

• The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Differences, Ability

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.180, Mango Media Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

  Chris Hayes

  Doe, Sake, Urban

  4 Copy quote

• The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Attitude, Animal, Men

  10 Copy quote

• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

  7 Copy quote

• Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

  John Medina

  Exercise, Brain, Cubicles

  9 Copy quote

• City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Heart, Games

  Bob Dylan (2006). “Lyrics 1962-2001. Testo inglese a fronte”, p.1098, Feltrinelli Editore

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

  Erik Erikson

  Feelings, Identity, Alive

  ERIK H. ERIKSON (1968). “Identity Youth and Crisis”

  280 Copy quote

  Show source

• No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Our World, Doe

  47 Copy quote

• The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.

  Charles Atlas

  Kings, Spring, Animal

  18 Copy quote

• The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Taken, Men

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Europe

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source