Animal Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the…

— Thomas Huxley

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

— Aristotle

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It…

— Chauncey Wright

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.

— Aristotle

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties—for rocks cannot seem to…

— Alan Wilson Watts

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

— Jack Sharkey

“He who is of lower evolution cannot love a higher object. But a person of higher evolution can love the lower as well as…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in…

— James Russell Lowell