Quotes on Small Creatures

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.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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

You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe