Living Creatures Quotes

86 Living Creatures quotes by 75 unique authors

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to… — Muriel Barbery
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there… — Jack Kerouac
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all… — Jules Verne
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped.… — Eleanor Roosevelt
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance;… — Algernon Blackwood
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays… — David Attenborough
But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up… — Lawrence Anthony
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder. — Cassandra Clare
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot… — Martin Gardner
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different. — Hippocrates
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes… — Konrad Lorenz
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. — E. O. Wilson
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what… — Saint Ambrose
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living… — David Quammen
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space… — Lucretius

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