Alexander Pope Quotes

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

Laws of nature don't know they are "fixed." That's a human pattern seeking description that comes out of our need to survive. It isn't an objective description of anything.

The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

Wherever life is, its main objective is to keep going, and it always wins. And nature? It's all built into nature. Survivability, life perpetuating. And that means there have to be babies. Baby everything! Baby birds, baby human beings, baby ants. You name it. There have to be babies, and what has to happen for there to be babies? Okay, birds and bees. What has to happen for that to happen? It's all intertwined, and it's all nature, and the left has come along and tried to monkey with it by politicizing as much of it as they can for whatever just really convoluted reasons.