Animals Quote by Mary Ellen Hannibal

“The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and…

— Wallace Stegner

“HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild.…

— Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so…

— Michael Pollan

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Humans, particularly those influenced by the Judeo-Christian ethic, see themselves as rulers of the earth, an attitude stemming not from divine doctrines, but rather…

— R.D. Lawrence

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further…

— Henry Adams

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

— Tracy Kidder

“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and…

— Herman Melville

“Blessed are the ones who have become spiritually "domesticated"; the ones who have tamed the wild animal energy within them, the passions and compulsions…

— Cynthia Bourgeault

“A wolf of the Steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a more striking…

— Hermann Hesse

“[Wild animals], and the beautiful landscapes that sustain them...possess a value and a virtue regardless of our dwindling connection with them. It seems that…

— Rick Bass