Quotes About Instinct

God has subjected man to six great necessities: birth, action, eating, sleep, reproduction and death.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

Hunger is a funny thing. It has a kind of intelligence of it's own.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

I had recourse to magic, that is, to a kind of deliberate predisposition, an intuitive complicity with nature.

Instinct is older than paper, wilder than words.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Freedom is all or nothing. With the likes of this would-be heartrending rabble, these pseudopathetic peons beating his battering rams against the gates, Dio knew that, in time, he was sure to smash them down. When freedom expands to mean freedom of instinct and social destruction, then freedom is dead.

Dynamite was the milk of life to the average hillbilly of the day. He celebrated with it, feuded with it, and fished with it. The Sporting instinct runs strong in the hills. When the fishing season would open, the river would literally be aboil with TNT.

To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.

They're happy.' 'Yes, like animals . . . mindlessly!

I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection is the fact that no rule exists against it.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]

Despite everything, he likes being alive. Lydia doesn't know whether that's true for herself. For mothers, the question is immaterial anyway. Her survival is a matter of instinct rather than desire.

For mothers, the question is immaterial anyway. Her survival is a matter of instinct rather than desire.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

All it takes is instinct.

When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

He waited for the spider to succumb to nature's plan and go underneath the surface again. It didn't. It kept swimming toward them. Another spider leapt into the pool. And then another. "Nope," said Jaunty. "Nope, nope, nope! I'm not okay with this!

an organism's primary directive is to continue to exist—