“I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.” I CanWorkAnimalShapesPaperClipSmall AnimalsPaper Clips Author:Al Yankovic
“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.” PastValuesAnimalSeaTaughtShapesLongingCompetitionChaosLoadOur PastUnclesCousinAuntFrailtyFamily ValuesClansExuberance Author:Timothy Shriver
“There is one god, greatest among gods and men, who bears no similarity to humans either in shape or thought... but humans believe that the gods are born like themselves, and that the gods wear clothes and have bodies like humans and speak in the same way... but if cows and horses or lions had hands or could draw with the hands and manufacture the things humans can make, then horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, cows like cows, and they would make the gods' bodies resemble those which each kind of animal had itself.” IfsMenWayBelieveHumansKindBodyHandsFormReligionSpeakBornAnimalBearsMoralityShapesClothesDrawsHorseLionsCowsSimilarity Author:Xenophanes
“If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.” IfsFirstsLooksAnimalDogShapesCatBunchElephantsSinkingSquirrelsArkOverboardCat DogSmall Animals Author:Vilfredo Pareto
“In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.” PeopleMadeDifferentFormNamesAnimalCarTasteShapesFactoriesAirplaneCookiesDoughDifferent Names Book:Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn Source: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.” MenWarProblemAgeAnimalEnvironmentMankindPossibilityMaterialsDependsShapesPlantEnvironmentalIncrediblesHarmNuclearCellsSubstancePollutionExtinctionPenetrateGermsTissuesNuclear WarHeredityPlants And AnimalsContamination Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring