“Humans - a renewable resource.”
“No other life is as pure as the plants. It is no wonder we cannot understand them.”
“Earth is saving itself from humans. Have you noticed it s been fighting back with earthquakes?”
“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.”
“Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he s learning to act like a human. I m sure I can learn to walk faster than that, he said desperately. But you ll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked. What s wrong with being natural? he demanded. Humans aren t natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.”
“Some people do not automatically become wiser when they age, sometimes they just become more confident in being an idiot.”
“A human being is a mountain range! Snakes are fascinated by us!”
“All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?”
“They knew now that if there is one thing that one can always desire and sometimes obtain, it is human affection.”
“The bees are dying and humans are not far behind.”
“When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn t really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being s grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.”
“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things. We talked about how animals don t just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”
“I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag.”
“Ho paura dell uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto.”
“All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn t a dog.”
“The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.”
“For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.”