Quotes of: Wild-animals Keyword

The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of the whole dirty deal. Having no se...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among the flowering plants, fecundity is not an assault on human values. Plants ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Collected Poems

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

Heart of a Dog

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

A Hologram for the King

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

The Book of Three

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

Castle in the Air

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Animal Dreams

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

Animal Dreams

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

Animal Dreams

(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.

Allegiant

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

Assassin's Quest

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

King Lear

Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.

Narcissus and Goldmund

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

The Long Walk

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Lexicon

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Proust