#creatures

We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#clear-conscience #environment #beauty

If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#life-and-death #love #death

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #love #pain #life

The Scriven men wore stack-heeled boots and pearl-studded evening coats; the ladies in their vast skirts looked like mythical creatures, half woman, half sofa. ↗

— Philip Reeve

#humor #mythical-creatures #men

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#creatures #first #innovations #living #living creatures

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#capable #creatures #disposed #distinguished #faculty

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#call #creatures #first #hunger #kind

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#cause #creatures #god #his #knowledge

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#attacked #been #close #creatures #enough

We were the only pulsating creatures in a dead world of ice. ↗

— Frederick Albert Cook

#dead #ice #only #pulsating #were