Fauna Quotes
24 quotes by 21 authors
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing…
— Aldo Leopold
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses…
— Louis Aragon
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
— Edward Abbey
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Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living…
— Thomas Berry
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Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both…
— Robert Genn
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a…
— Charles Lyell
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The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their…
— Paul Hawken
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things.…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
— Henry Arthur Jones
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep…
— D. H. Lawrence
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For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical…
— Henry Louis Gates
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother…
— Joss Whedon
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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More…
— Henry Miller
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Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon…
— Martin Rees
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The human life-cycle is no different than the 4 season changes, here on Earth We have birth(Spring), maturity(Summer), old age(Fall), and death(Winter). This is another…
— YourMaj3sty
Who Wrote These Fauna Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 24 Fauna Quotes as follows: