Quotes About Instinct

Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

greed is not a racial but a human prediliction and

At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.

tengo un diablo integrado que empieza a pensar rápido cuando ve que se agotan los billetes.

I think hunting used to be important for human survival. Thats no longer the case, but they can't stop. A human being, perhaps, is made up of many nonsensical movements. But they've forgotten the movements necessary for life. These humans are manipulated by what remains of their memories.

Equally misplaced was the notion "maternal instinct." With animals, childrearing is a matter not of instinct but of art. It can't be very much different for humans or they wouldn't keep adopting children of different species.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - The Life of Pi

I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.

What don't we realize is that we are a strange and forbidding species to wild animals. We fill them with fear. They avoid us as much as possible. It took centuries to still the fear in some pliable animals – domestication it's called – but most cannot get over their fear, and I doubt they ever will. When wild animals fight us, it is out of sheer desperation. They fight when they feel they have no other way out.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

Kalau nyawa kita sendiri terancam, kemampuan kita berempati jadi tumpul oleh hasrat egois yang amat sangat untuk bertahan hidup.

Zonder gekte zou geen enkele soort kunnen overleven.

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something.

animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. A

Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find that gives them a sense of security, and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot.

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season.

for, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.