Quotes of: Wild-animals Keyword

Better to be watched by a wild animal than a nosey man.

Berber

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Tippi Hedren

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.

G.K. Chesterton

There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothin...

Sightlines

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

Marcello Malpighi

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

Diane Ackerman

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are i...

Aristotle

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

J. Paul Getty

We generally accept that it's natural for carnivorous wild animals to kill other animals in order to live. But people don't often think (or even know) about the extraordinary and unnatural suffering that humans inflict on the animals that we freely h...

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be left alone, so it’s not surprising tha...

Shooting in the Wild: An Insider's Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

Tippi Hedren

We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their 'food' face to face.

Elayne Boosler

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

The Next Million Years

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Jack Hanna

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

Phil Robertson

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Karl Marx

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

George Orwell

Mr. Fox: That was pure wild animal craziness.

Fantastic Mr. Fox