Jungle Quotes - Page 5

• And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Men, Gun

  Henry Timrod, “Charleston”

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.

  George Steiner

  Sueño, Arte, Risa

  George Steiner (1998). “Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman”, p.392, Yale University Press

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• I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.

  Kesha

  Sexy, Cat, Thinking

  Entrevista con Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. 19 de marzo de 2010.

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• The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

  Lane Kirkland

  Advice, Way, Heathen

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• As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Writing, Adventure, Army

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• Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

  Arthur Miller

  Eye, Brain, Noses

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.381, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Flower, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). "Los mejores escritos sobre la naturaleza de Joseph Wood Krutch".

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• El hombre que irá donde vayan sus colores, sin preguntar, que luchará contra un enemigo fantasma en la selva y la cordillera, sin contar, y que sufrirá y morirá en medio de increíbles penurias, sin quejarse, sigue siendo lo que siempre ha sido, desde la Roma imperial hasta la Gran Bretaña cetrina y la América democrática. Es la materia de la que están hechas las legiones. Se enorgullece de sus colores y de su regimiento, su entrenamiento es duro, minucioso y fríamente realista, para prepararle para lo que debe afrontar, y obedece sus órdenes. Le han llamado Marine de los Estados Unidos.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). "This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War", p.482, Open Road Media.

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• It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

  Andrew Schneider

  Thinking, Creative, Cooking

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• Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Time, Party

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• Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Selfish, Men, Law

  "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.

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• Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U.S.S.R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U.S.S.R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.

  José Stalin

  Law, Track, Enemy

  Anti-Semitism: Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States, January 12, 1931.

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• I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of rhodods. with Pines below me as thick & bad to get through as our Fuegian Fagi on the hill tops, & except the towering peaks of P. S. that, here shoot up on all hands there is little difference in the mt scenery—here however the blaze of Rhod. flowers and various colored jungle proclaims a differently constituted region in a naturalists eye & twenty species here, to one there, always are asking me the vexed question, where do we come from?

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Flower, Eye, Rocks

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• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men, Cities

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

  Michael Dolan

  Powerful, Concrete Jungle, Peaceful

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• The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

  James Gleick

  Book, Would Be, Culture

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• Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Madre, Niños, Lluvia

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• Cuando caminaba... se estiraba larga y delgada como un pequeño tigre, y levantaba la cabeza para mirar por encima de la hierba como si pisara la selva.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Long, Looks

  "How to Hide Your Cat from the Landlord: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Living in Harmony with a Compatible Feline in Smaller Spaces". Book by Jasmine Kinnear (p. 87), April 6, 2006.

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• One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from your real being; you become focused on the thing to which you are attached. Your awareness gets lost in things, in money, in people, in power. And there are a thousand and one things, the whole thick jungle around you, to be lost in. Remember, non-attachment is the secret of finding yourself, then awareness can turn inwards because you don't have anything outside to catch hold of. It is free, and in this freedom you can know your self-nature.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Attachment, Self

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• It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.

  Marisha Pessl

  War, Simple, People

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• Un libro verdaderamente bueno es algo tan natural y tan inesperada e inexplicablemente bello y perfecto como una flor silvestre descubierta en las praderas del Oeste o en las selvas del Este.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.405, Penguin

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• Hoy las armas callan. Una gran tragedia ha terminado. Se ha logrado una gran victoria. En el cielo ya no llueve muerte, en los mares sólo hay comercio, en todas partes los hombres caminan erguidos bajo la luz del sol. El mundo entero yace tranquilo en paz. La sagrada misión ha sido completada. Y al informaros de esto a vosotros, el pueblo, hablo en nombre de los miles de labios silenciosos, callados para siempre entre las selvas y las playas y en las profundas aguas del Pacífico que marcaron el camino.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Beach, Lying, War

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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