Quotes About Instinct

How I do love to hear the wolves howl!

I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.

We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell.

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.

Every animal loves itself.

Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

Ma come voi ben sapete, nessuno decide razionalmente di cui innamorarsi, ma è trascinato dal suo cuore e dal suo istinto. A questa legge tentai invano di oppormi, e perciò vi ho amato, vi amo e vi amerò sempre.

How do migrating birds know which one to follow? What if the lead bird just wants to be alone?

Here are instructions for being a pigeon: (1) Walk around aimlessly for a while, pecking at cigarette butts and other inappropriate items. (2) Take fright at someone walking along the platform and fly off to a girder. (3) Have a shit. (4) Repeat.

the books tell you that if the grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life. However, when the grizzly overtakes

Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life.

When they are not eating, rats are likely to be having sex. Rats have a lot of sex—up to twenty times a day. If a male rat can't find a female, he will happily—or at least willingly—find relief in a male.

Dying is, to coin a phrase, the last thing your body wants to do.

In Australia and the Americas," says Tim Flannery, "the animals probably didn't know enough to run away.

Sadly, although the source of much enjoyment, Ginger the pig progressed from hunting and killing chickens to lambs and, after a stab at my mother's ankles, was banished to the freezer before she developed a taste for small children.

You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger. The question is, how can you get the tiger back in the jungle?

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

128] Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.