Jungles Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way…
— J M Coetzee
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was…
— Dennis Hopper
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We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals…
— Miriam Makeba
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Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart’s territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears…
— Barbara Hamby
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The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of…
— Eustace Mullins
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word…
— David Platt
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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.
— Vincente Minnelli
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Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime…
— John Medina
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There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket…
— Alan Watts
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Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that…
— Peter Benchley
Who Wrote These Jungles Quotes
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