Jungle Quotes - Page 9

• The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Adoption

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.18, Pluto Press

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• I am in the jungle and I am too fast for you. You have teeth and stripes and things that tear. But I am much too fast… You want my flesh, but you don’t know where the jungle is… Only I know where the jungle is… Only I know… I am a gazelle. I am a gazelle and the jungle is my home.

  Gerard Way

  Home, Stripes, Tears

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• Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?” “I’m not sure. How do you tell?” “Love? Why, it’s like coming home.” Hadrian considered the comment. “What are you thinking?” Bulard asked. Hadrian shook his head. “Nothing.” “Yes, you were. What? You can tell me. I’m an excellent repository for secrets. I’ll likely forget, but if I don’t, well, I’m an old man in a remote jungle. I’m sure to die before I can repeat anything.” Hadrian smiled, then shrugged. “I was just thinking about the rain.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Rain, Home, Men

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• People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.

  Miriam Makeba

  Falling In Love, Animal, Views

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• Antes se pensaba que los acontecimientos que cambiaban el mundo eran cosas como las grandes bombas, los políticos maníacos, los grandes terremotos o los grandes movimientos de población, pero ahora se ha comprendido que se trata de una visión muy anticuada mantenida por personas totalmente alejadas del pensamiento moderno. Lo que realmente cambia el mundo, según la teoría del Caos, son las cosas diminutas. Una mariposa bate sus alas en la selva amazónica y, posteriormente, una tormenta arrasa media Europa.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Buenos Presagios". Libro de Neil Gaiman y Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

  Isabel Allende

  Law, Land, Greed

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• A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

  B. Traven

  Believe, School, College

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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Rivers

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the jungle had a reason for existing. I caught myself wishing there was a page in his guide that had my picture on it with the reason for my existence written underneath in Esau’s neat hand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Book, Eye, Hands

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• Oímos el ruido ambiental de niños cantando. Oímos rugir a leones y tigres. Las hienas ríen. Algún pájaro de la selva o mono aullador declara su existencia, chillando un galimatías de maníaco. Todo nuestro mundo, siempre luchando contra el silencio y la oscuridad de la muerte.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Niños, Risa, Silencio

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• For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Tasks, Three

  C. S. Lewis (2003). "Una mente despierta: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis", p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I say we try it,' says Peeta. 'Katniss is right.' Finnick looks at Johanna and raises his eyebrows. He will not go forward without her. 'All right,' she says finally. 'It's better than hunting them down in the jungle, anyway. And I doubt they'll figure out our plan, since we can barely understand it ourselves.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hunting, Eyebrows, Katniss

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• Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their jungle camps, and the government soldiers were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music... That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Government, Oil

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Here I Am, Ruins, Dignity

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). "El mundo de Evelyn Waugh"

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• Sí, los Marines están en tierra selvática y mataron a un hombre en una guerra, y mucha gente no sabía nada de ello.

  Earl Hancock Ellis

  War, Marine, Men

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• What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.

  Hideo Kojima

  Cameras, Caves, Lost

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• Sin equipo de sonido. Sin banda. Sin guitarra. Sin entretenimiento. Sin sillas acolchadas. Sin calefacción ni aire acondicionado. Nada más que el pueblo de Dios y la palabra de Dios. Y extrañamente, eso es suficiente. La Palabra de Dios es suficiente para millones de creyentes que se reúnen en iglesias caseras... Selvas... Selvas tropicales, y ciudades del medio oriente. Pero, ¿es suficiente su Palabra para nosotros?

  David Platt

  Air, Guitar, Cities

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• Si el tamaño importara, el elefante sería el rey de la jungla.

  Rickson Gracie

  Art, Kings, Elephants

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• Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

  Mary Slessor

  Jesus, Men, White Man

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• Ojalá pudiera hablarte del Pacífico Sur. Como era en realidad. El océano infinito. Las infinitas motas de coral que llamábamos islas. Cocoteros que se inclinaban graciosamente hacia el océano. Arrecifes sobre los que las olas rompían en rocío, y lagunas interiores, encantadoras más allá de toda descripción. Ojalá pudiera hablarle de la selva sudorosa, de la luna llena que se alzaba tras los volcanes y de la espera. La espera. La eterna y repetitiva espera.

  James A. Michener

  Océano, Luna, Islas

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• Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Creer, Hombres

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 117, 1933.

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• La gente que se considera dura y realista, entre ellos influyentes líderes políticos y hombres de negocios, así como buscavidas y buscavidas de menor calibre, tienden a dar por sentado que la naturaleza humana es egoísta y que la vida es una lucha en la que sólo puede sobrevivir el más fuerte. Según esta filosofía, la ley básica por la que debe regirse el hombre, a pesar de su superficial barniz de civilización, es la ley de la selva. Los "más aptos" son los que pueden aportar a la lucha una fuerza superior, una astucia superior y una crueldad superior.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Filosofía, Egoísmo, Lucha

  "El lenguaje en el pensamiento y la acción". Libro de S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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• El antropólogo debe abandonar su cómoda posición en el largo sillón de la veranda del complejo misionero, la estación gubernamental o el bungalow del plantador, donde, armado con lápiz y cuaderno y a veces con whisky y soda, ha estado acostumbrado a recoger declaraciones de los informantes..... Debe salir a las aldeas y ver a los nativos trabajando en los jardines, en la playa, en la selva; debe navegar con ellos a bancos de arena distantes y a tribus extranjeras.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Cuaderno, Playa, Jardín

  El mito en la psicología primitiva, cap. 5 (1926)

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• Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Law, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Caroline Adams Miller "Bright Words for Dark Days: Meditations for Women Who Get the Blues" (p. 10), 1994.

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• The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Important, Legends, Fierce

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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