Quotes About Creatures

If the experience of delight presupposes a sustained, patient, sympathetic, and affectionate embrace of the world, then the decline of delight will be preceded by the erosion of the practical conditions that make such an embrace possible. What trends and practices in culture work to undermine a loving regard for creatures and things, and how have these trends and practices contributed to a situation in which relatively few people bow their heads before raising their forks?

Miracles are God making right something within the world that has gone wrong. That means miracles are not an interruption in the life of creatures, but rather those creatures' liberation to move into the life that God desires for them.

pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance

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?

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

Those who travel desert places do indeed meet with creatures surpassing all description.

That the deep foundation of the world be considered where it has its being in the sorrow of her creatures.

You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.

I did want to be included. I just wasn't willing to pay the entry fee. On my better days I could even grant that we were the same creatures. Much was the same and little different. The same unlikely forms. Elbows. Skulls. The remnants of a soul.

For whoever makes a shelter of reeds and hides has joined his spirit to the common destiny of creatures and he will subside back into the primal mud with scarcely a cry.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.

Molotov explained how that book, should one be foolish enough to open it, gave the power to read things and creatures out of any book in the world.

What terrible human presumption it is to catch other living creatures and hold them captive!

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world — any world. The very best of all.

The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.

The Witch had been aiming straight for her head, intending to tear it off. (Dear little creatures, these Witches, aren't they?)

The first seeds of doubt about all that she had been told about Magic creatures were sown in Wish's mind when she looked up at the giant's kid face....

Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

The righteous one is an advocate for creatures and at the same time their highest embodiment.

Here is our gentle and beloved Leonardo, who became a vegetarian because of his fondness for all creatures, wallowing in horrifying depictions of death.

In spite of appearances, the majesty of nature is just a fancy blanket draped over the malevolence of the creatures of earth.

If you put your heart against the earth with me, in serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you from our sacred realm and we will be, we will be so happy.