Animal World Quotes - Page 1

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Southey / Poet
Pet
Animal
Animal World
Garden
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I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
Doris Day / Actress
Animal
Animal World
World
Never Stop
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Analogue
Animal
Animal World
Human Language
Language
Phenomenon
Significant
Unique
World
Appears
Without
Human
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If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.
Mark Roth /
Animal
Animal World
Organisms
Suspended
Enter
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'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
Annie Dillard / Author
Animal
Animal World
Ugly
Word
Least
Plants
Subject
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Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Morarji Desai / Former Prime Minister Of India
Quality
Men
Animal
Animal World
Passion
Vegetarianism
Alone Man World
Distinguishes
Therefore
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
Edith Hamilton / Author
Men
Animal
Animal World
Mind
Die
Enables
Rest
Make Up
Separates
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
Adapted
Anatomy
Animal
Animal World
Cat
Classic
Dog
Function
Gothic
Nowhere
Discover
Whilst
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Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.
Louie Schwartzberg /
Animal
Animal World
Billions
Each Day
Our Planet
Plant
Life Where World
Life World Day
Intersection
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Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Adolf Hitler / Former Chancellor Of Germany
All Things
Animal
Animal World
Brutal
Father
Humanity
Mean
Struggle
Humanity Man World
Above
Man Lives
Preserve
Solely
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Agency
Animal
Animal World
Nourishment
Water
Absorb
Itself
Masses
Molecule
Solvent
Vegetable
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You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
James Jones / Author
Animal
Animal World
Bravery
Horrible
Human Race
Pernicious
Race
Consider
Virtues
Rid
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Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.
Tom Hodgkinson / Writer
Animal
Animal World
Biologist
Enjoyable
Proof
Theory
Slow
Tortoise
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In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
Wilhelm Wundt / Psychologist
Science
Animal
Animal World
Differentiation
Discrimination
Evolution
Hands
Progressive
Provinces
Consequent
Departments
Functions
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Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known.
Jon Katz / Journalist
Animal
Animal World
Goats
Ready
Talk
Show
Cable
Complimentary
Impertinent
Interrupt
Moment
Notice
Talk Show
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In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
Chris Adami /
Animal
Animal World
Binary
Mechanism
Recognition
Behaviors
Evolutionary
Flee
For Example
Opponent
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I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
Louie Schwartzberg /
Animal
Animal World
Evolution
Eye
Force
Magic
Mechanism
Naked
Plant
Reproduction
World
Life Nature World
Had
Seen
Between
Through
Forward
Intersection
Invented
Link
Makes
Moment
Move
Move Forward
Naked Eye
Passes
Right
Rarely
Realized
Truly
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A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
Sloane Crosley / Writer
Pet
Animal
Animal World
Anything Else
Applicable
Cats
Dogs
Explosion
Happily
Minority
Options
Quietly
Store
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