Small Creature Quotes

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Even a small mouse has anger.

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.

I left Nixon, feeling ... like a very small creature, skirting the shadows of encircling powers that would not hesitate to crush me as impersonally as a steam roller crushes a bug.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.