Quotes About Survival

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.