Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

I think marriage works for some people, but I just don't think it could work for me. I don't see it.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

There's always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

Reader, you may ask this queston. In fact, you must ask this question. Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful princess named Pea? The answer is... Yes. Of course it's ridiculous. Love is ridiculous. But love is also wonderful. And powerful.

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something.

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.

The bird loves her nest.