Creatures Quotes

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There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as… — Helen Hunt Jackson
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your… — Pope Pius X
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. — Gregory Bateson
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine… — Joan Halifax
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the… — Joan Halifax
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of… — William Henry Hudson
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in… — William Shakespeare
I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet. — Abraham Lincoln
To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for… — Jon Evans
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to… — Thomas Carlyle
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and… — John Milton
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even… — Alexander Pope
Look at the animals roaming the forest: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: Godâ€™s spirit dwells within them.… — Pelagius
The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances,… — J I Packer

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