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Creatures Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,…
- Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially…
- It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
- If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new…
- The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
- After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain…
More Creatures Quotes
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon