Wild Animal Quotes

• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

  Anthony Douglas

  Animal, Giving, Ifs

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• The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Life, Science, Animal

  Ernest Thompson Seton (2007). “Wild Animals I Have Known”, p.14, Yesterday's Classics

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• There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Animal, Men

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• I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

  Sigmund Freud

  Animal, Privilege, Company

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• The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Animal, Differences, Literature

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• Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them that although they must submit to capture, search, and confinement, they will not otherwise be harmed and will be set free at the conclusion of hostilities. If we capture wild animals, however, we cannot explain that we are not threatening their lives. A wild animal cannot distinguish an attempt to overpower and confine from an attempt to kill; the one causes as much terror as the other.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Understanding, Suffering

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• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

  Michael J. Fox

  Zoos, Animal, Needs

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Kids, Animal, Two

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Men, Creatures

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• To seek solitude like a wild animal.  That is my only ambition.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Animal, Solitude

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• People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Heart, Animal, Self

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Men, Broken

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fishers of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Nature

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• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Children, Animal, Men

  "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Animal, Reality

  THEODORE ROOSEVELT (2015). “The Deer Family”, p.81, Loose Cannon

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• There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Animal, Men, Feds

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “Little house on the prairie”, Scholastic

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• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Country, Animal, People

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (200?). “The little house treasury”

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

  Bram Stoker

  Animal, Ideas, Looks

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.126, Hayes Barton Press

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• Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

  Richard Paul Evans

  Animal, Feelings, Cages

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Sunflower”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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