Nature and Animals

"If the deer had guns too, then, and only then, would hunting truly be a sport."

Lewis Grizzard

Nature and Animals

Sports

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace."

Milan Kundera

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."

Charles Lindbergh

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.09 (Number of Voters: 11)

"It is a poor mouse that has only one hole."

Catalan Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws."

Charles Simmons

Health and Alcohol

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog."

Adam Smith

Nature and Animals

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

Ansel Adams

Authority, Government

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

Japanese Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

Human

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Bulls do not win bull fights. People do."

Norman Ralph Augustine

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

Jeff Valdez

Nature and Animals

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Ann Landers

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Like the sunflower, it is our nature to turn always toward the light."

Dorothy Mendoza Row

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If there is no God, man is most unfortunate freak of nature. "

Kazimierz Matan

God and Religion

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nature is the only murderer who is not convicted."

Kazimierz Matan

Law and Crime

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Clear sky is bigger than the largest rain clouds."

Kazimierz Matan

Nature and Animals

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Sex is a trap set by nature to ensure the survival of our species."

Kazimierz Matan

Human

Love

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Gray is a cover, which hides the colors."

Kazimierz Matan

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

James Bryant Conant

Nature and Animals

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

A. Whitney Brown

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Human

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Cats are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

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Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A butterfly is a self-propelled flower."

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Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Ian Fleming

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"God invented dogs to give cats something to laugh at!"

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Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"God made the country, and man made the town."

William Cowper

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Pain and Tears

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.29 (Number of Voters: 7)

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne "Urn Burial"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Italian Journey"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

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Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis "God In The Dock"

Good and Evil

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Spring is a true reconstructionist."

Henry Timrod

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni "Pamela"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

George Bernard Shaw "Getting Married"

Human

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Nature and Animals

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sayings in Prose"

Nature and Animals

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

Aleister Crowley "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Beauty and Ugliness

Nature and Animals

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

Various Proverbs

Nature and Animals

Various

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."

Jean Baudrillard "America"

Nature and Animals

Oration and Silence

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nature is goodness crystallized."

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Good and Evil

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy."

Edward Dahlberg "Alms for Oblivion"

Nature and Animals

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Life and Death

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist."

Henry Louis Mencken

Nature and Animals

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)