Quotes About Survival

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

You should never try and out guess Mother Nature because when you do, you come off second best.

If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Without the earth, where can humankind live?

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle

Protecting our environment is not a luxury we can choose to enjoy, but a simple matter of survival.

the nature need the evil for existence

A lamb among wolves!

Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

Of course, accidents will happen in wild-folk families just as among us humans, only in a wild-folk family, an accident is more apt to be fatal.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.