Creatures Quotes

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Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being. — John Ciardi
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? — Walker Percy
Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the supermarket? Overall, it… — Peter Singer
You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious… — Saint Basil
Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the… — Thomas Merton
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some… — George Perkins Marsh
We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they… — Isaac Newton
How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page. — Joseph Hall
I haven't really been able to transfer into that extraordinarily other worldly creature, other than I hope on stage. — Renee Fleming
I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a… — Kit Harington
I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat. — Kristin Chenoweth
I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that. — Kid Cudi
The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river. — Hermann Hesse
Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my… — Mahatma Gandhi
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she… — Horace
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea. — George Eliot
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself… — Carl Jung
Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel de Montaigne

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