Living Creatures Quotes - Page 2

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Dan Millman

Mother, Religious, Technology

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Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Albert Schweitzer

Life, Cat, Animal

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Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

Haruki Murakami

Heart, Cat, Hands

FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 29, 2015

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Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Mikao Usui

Letting Go, Kindness, Blessing

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Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

James Stewart

Animal, Hunting, Rights

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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

Humility, Men, Compassion

Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.

Hugh Downs

Intelligent, Moon, Land

"NSS Mourns Neil Armstrong – Calls for Renewed Emphasis on Human Space Exploration". www.nss.org. August 26, 2012.

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The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

Robertson Davies

Strong, Party, Passion

"The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.

Julien Benda

Beautiful, Struggle, Passion

"Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows.

Rachel Carson

Land, Water, Community

"Essay on the Biological Sciences". Good Reading, 1958.

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What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.

Donna Tartt

Wall, Loneliness, Yellow

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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!

Pythagoras

Vegetarianism, Wickedness, Body

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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

Seneca the Younger

Life, Dog, War

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Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Son, Doe, Ants

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When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.

Wayne Dyer

Baby, Peace, Nature

Wayne W. Dyer (2008). “Your Ultimate Calling”, p.143, Hay House, Inc

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Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

Petra Kelly

Mother, Taken, Raw Materials

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There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

David Starr Jordan

Animal, Men, Rights

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Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.

Jane Goodall

Motivation, Inspiration, Animal

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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Rain, Years, Water

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The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon carried a red flag. The first photograph of the far side of the Moon was made with a Soviet camera. If a man orbits the earth this year his name will be Ivan.

John F. Kennedy

Future, Moon, Men

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There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

Norman L Browse

Heart, Animal, Way

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In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the particular personality and worth of each living creature. Too bad we forget so often.

Joan D. Chittister

Animal, Simple, Personality

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You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.

Margo Lanagan

Real, Heart, Lovely

Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Albert Schweitzer

Suffering And Death, Vegetarian, Vegan

Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

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Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

John Dewey

Space, May, Environment

John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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