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Animal Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant…
- Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
- Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no…
- The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.…
- But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather crude…
- Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not…
- To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices…
- The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough