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Animal Quotes by John Steinbeck
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
- A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks…
- A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they…
- The human is the only guilty animal.
- I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging…
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is…
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