Quotes About Instinct

If they have not trembled and breathed that way before they are released, they will not survive. They will die.

till he'd tried it. You have to understand. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't know fear. He might be cautious—

We undervalue irrationality, I believe. It can protect us in hostile settings.

Ian kept his brain in his dick

You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.

In all living creatures, fear and curiosity are closely related in the brain.

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can't say why. Maybe because we were hunters, all of us. The way a cat moves in the shadows. Or a wolf. The instinctive safety in that.

Increasingly I'm convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.

El murciélago era listo. Lo único que tenía que hacer era cagar y esperar.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

“Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.

Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.