Wild animals Quotes

“Only wild animals harm each other.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

— Bill Bailey

“He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.”

— H.M. Ward

“The zoo kills the 'wild' in wild animal.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

— Mark Twain

“A sheep in wolves clothing!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Maybe he got attacked by some wild animals,” Sarah added. “There”

— Paul Moxham

“It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.”

— Heena Rathore P

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

— Tippi Hedren

“Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!”

— Munia Khan

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

— Aleister Crowley

“publicly raped by a specially trained giraffe, after which she was torn apart by wild animals.”

— Harold Schechter

not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals.

— Erma Bombeck

“I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.”

— Yann Martel

We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals…

— Virginia McKenna

“wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural…

— John Durant

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply…

— S. Parkes Cadman

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million…

— Charles Galton Darwin

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more…

— Jane Goodall

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Heartbroken men are like wild animals, running around with hysteria in their eyes, desperately trying to knock the dents out of their…

— Jessica Thompson

We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot…

— Enid Blyton

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance,…

— Nathan Wolfe

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of…

— Peter Singer

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild…

— Abraham Lincoln

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it…

— Lee Goldberg

There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting…

— Peter Singer

Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the…

— Francis of Assisi

I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild…

— May Sarton

My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company…

— Brooke Medicine Eagle

Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can…

— Peter Singer

“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they…

— Robert Macfarlane

“I loved them in the way one loves at any age — if it’s real at all — obsessively, painfully, with wild…

— May Sarton

“It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with…

— Élisée Reclus

They are wild animals that live in your house - that's the only way to describe a toddler.

— Dawn O'Porter