Culture Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human…

— Isabella Bird

“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill…

— Yann Martel

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around:…

— Yann Martel

I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.

— Ratan Tata

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.

— Will Cuppy

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel…

— Anonymous

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

— Mohit Chauhan

“Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occassionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its…

— Jim Corbett

When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

— Mahatma Gandhi