"As a general rule of biology, migratory species……" — Bruce Chatwin
"As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones."
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28 Quotes by Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin has 28 quotes on this site.
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The song and the land are one.
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.
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I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the…
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the…
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Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk…
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.
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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of…
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Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
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When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our…
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The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a…
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Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the…
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More Aggressive Quotes
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one of 515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
— Gary Bauer
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild…
— Casey Affleck
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of…
— Jo Brand
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important to the average player.…
— Greg Norman
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As professor of global peace studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia I am committed to the ending of…
— Johan Galtung
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages.…
— Barney Frank
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I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first…
— Jarome Iginla
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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
— Earl Blaik
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain,…
— Mark Twain
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