Quotes About Creatures

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

The basis for peace is respecting all creatures.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.