You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.
Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.
There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
Thou strange piece of wild nature!
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.
A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!
I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
He was like some wild, untamed creature that you could keep and feed for a time, but in the end you knew you'd have to let it go for its own sake as well as yours.
Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
