Quotes
Quotes about Jungle
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
If there were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.
And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.
Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beastsâwho merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and cavesâwas a civilizing triumph.
[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.
Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.
