Best wonder & animal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”

Animal Wonder Students Development Offers Miracle Plant Worthy Operations Admiration Embryos Inspection

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”

Ifs Men World May Has Beens Seems Might Together House Can Do Animal Wonder Enemy Dog Creatures Cat Function Animal World Cat And Dog

Author:C. S. Lewis

“You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator.”

Thinking Earth Heaven Animal Wonder Air Sea Creation Creatures Bird Filled Creator Cease Listeners Glorify Studious

Author:Saint Basil

“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.”

Ifs Humans Soul Earth Moving Spirit Animal Wonder Tree Figures Painting Flower Delight Painter Hills Landscape Limbs Fullness Human Soul Petals Figure Painting

Book:Works

Source: Works

“As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.”

World Children Faces Used Animal Wonder Class Boys Watches Fantasy Middle Adventure Clouds Giants Middle Class Dragons Castles Mundane Middle Class Life

Author:Barry B. Longyear

“You talk to some people who are opposed to same sex marriage, and they'll say, 'If we allow that, what's next? Will people want to marry animals?'...You have to wonder about people who go straight to that idea --- and they think WE'RE weird!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Next Sex Animal Wonder

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of that one sick man, and it's up to me and a half-mexican to stop him.”

Men Sex Animal Half Wonder Sick Mexican Having Sex Cuz Sick Man

Author:Dave Attell

“I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.”

World Animal Wonder Ultimate Confusion Fallen Immigrants Newborn

Book:Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

Source: Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

“One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.”

Humans Animal Wonder Appointments Errands

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.”

“In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus.”

Spirit Animal Wonder Cases Ducks Platypus

Author:Creed Bratton

“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.”

Source: The spectator

“Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.”

World Animal Wonder Creation Strange Evolution Plant Mood Animal World

Author:John Colton

“No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.”

Knows May Animal Wonder Circus Chimpanzees Gorillas

Author:Paul Mooney

“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”

Men Humans May Stills Sometimes Earth Asks Animal Poor Wonder Watches Late Flight Aviation Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.”

Source: Mr. Monk in Trouble

“The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?”

Knows Animal Wonder Magic Species Sloth Did You Know Sense Of Wonder

Author:Ann Burton

“It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.”

Should Facts Space Animal Wonder Wonderful Groups Plant All Time Related Time And Space Familiarity Subordinates Origin Of Species

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“Older animals are the best because, number one, a majority of the time, they are already house-trained; number two, you know exactly what kind of personality you are going to be getting with that animal; and number three, they are already full size, so no need to wonder how big they are going to get.”

Knows Needs Kind Two Bigs Three House Animal Numbers Wonder Personality Majority Size Number Three

Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern

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