Quotes about animal
animal men people
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live. Konrad Lorenz
animal air land
I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them. Kent McCord
animal men order
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection. Kenneth Burke
animal giving generations
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
animal years fifty
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. Ralph Steadman
animal suffering
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others? Ramana Maharshi
animal firsts
First be a good animal. Ralph Waldo Emerson
animal boxing boxers
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
animal chimpanzees mass
The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
animal progress world
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
animal destiny men
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.
animal dangerous-world people
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom. Scarlett Thomas
animal crackers boxes
I bought a box of animal crackers, but there was nothing inside. They'd eaten each other. Lily Tomlin
animal views self
I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.
animal tears delight
Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good. Lin Yutang
animal men use
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever. Thomas Aquinas
animal vegetables sacred
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. Terry Tempest Williams
animal water community
We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.
animal average together
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal.... The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it. Terry Pratchett
animal giving headache
As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache. Terry Gou
animal pigs monkeys
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! Tennessee Williams
animal giving chance
Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
animal psychics growth
We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. Terence McKenna
animal data states
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
animal glory humans
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
animal anxiety feelings
All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
animal years stories
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
animal imagination mind
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
animal mind analysis
The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
animal ideas raw-materials
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
animal keys psychology
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
animal data safety
Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
animal people feelings
I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal. Temple Grandin