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Quotes About Jungle

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
~ Jack Kerouac
I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
~ Jack Kerouac
Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me: I jumped up on the steel roof of the car and stretched out flat on my back. Still there was no breeze, but the steel had an element of coolness in it and dried my back of sweat, clotting up thousands of dead bugs into cakes on my skin, and I realized the jungle takes you over and you become it.
~ Jack Kerouac
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
~ Jack Kerouac
New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
~ Jack Kerouac
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.
~ Earl Hancock Ellis
War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.
~ Feng Nong
When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.
~ Jonathan Haidt
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
~ Ted Dekker
Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!
~ Mary Slessor
The color of the land fades gradually from dark jungle green to pale green and then a sere reddish-brown as the tail extends from the fat center of the island out to the end, and the soil becomes dryer.
~ Neal Stephenson
Hmyz v džungli vás považuje za velké kusy živého, avÅ¡ak nepÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ dobÃ…â"¢e hájeného jídla. Schopnost pohybu není ani tak odstraÅ¡ující prostÃ…â"¢edek, spíÅ¡ slouží jako nezfalÅ¡ovatelná záruka ?erstvosti.
~ Neal Stephenson
The British had built railways across their Empire with the labour of Asian 'coolies'. Now, in one of the great symbolic reversals of world history, the Japanese forced 60,000 British and Australian PoWs – as well as Dutch prisoners and conscripted Indian labour – to construct 250 miles of railway through the mountainous jungle on the Thai-Burmese border.
~ Niall Ferguson
This room was a veritable jungle of heirlooms, and an admirable setting for Lady Marlinworth, who, in spite of her age, had lost none of her agility in climbing up and down family trees.
~ Nicholas Blake
The air was electric with sounds—bugs, birds, monkeys—and the sky was the color of fresh blood. A tangerine sun played hide-and-seek through the trees.
~ Kristin Hannah
Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I'm not going to wait one more second for that.
~ Laini Taylor
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. ERIK ERIKSON
~ Catherine Gildiner
I even heard that part of a very large government loan to South Vietnam was expended on a nonexistent airfield that's still impenetrable jungle.
~ James Clavell
In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
We follow the rules of Jungle.survival, survival, survival.
~ Haritha Velpureddy
No matter how much territory the wolf conquers the lion will still rule the jungle.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.
~ Elaine Morgan