Wild Life Quotes

• The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Camping, Benefits, Today

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

  Anton Chekhov

  Inspirational, Men, Green Trees

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Flames

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

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• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  Zane Grey

  Freedom, Needs

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• To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Seasons

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.32, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Shadow Of Death, Games, Game Changers

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

  Rex Stout

  Girl, Cat, America

  rex stout (1955). “three witnesses”

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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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• It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.

  Laini Taylor

  Daughter, Home, Journey

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.14, Penguin

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• Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

  Eric Burdon

  Wine, Boys, Islands

  Eric Burdon, Jeff Marshall Craig (2002). “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood”, p.316, Da Capo Press

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• [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.

  John Burroughs

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Dry Up

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Ideas, America, No Idea

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• Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Beauty, Sports

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