Brian Tracy Quotes

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.

Big fish eat little fish.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

The strong were always eating the weak.

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

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

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

Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

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

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

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.

There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself, Horace Albright. And he became superintendent, which is the boss of Yellowstone Park, in 1919 - from 1919 to 1929. Later, he was director of the park service itself. Albright embraced the idea that in order for the national parks - and Yellowstone in particular - to have support from the American people and from politicians, there needed to be wildlife as spectacle.