Top 1200 Living Creatures Quotes & Sayings

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.

Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.

Regarding the passage on p. 163 of the 'Gleanings': The creatures which Bahá'u'lláh states to be found on every planet cannot be considered to be necessarily similar or different from human beings on this earth. Bahá'u'lláh does not specifically state whether such creatures are like or unlike us. He simply refers to the fact that there are creatures on every planet. It remains for science to discover one day the exact nature of these creatures.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live.

I grew up watching 'Star Trek.' I love 'Star Trek.' 'Star Trek' made me want to see alien creatures, creatures from a far-distant world. But basically, I figured out that I could find those alien creatures right on Earth. And what I do is I study insects.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

There is no way that the heart-lung machine could have been devised and developed other than through studies on living creatures

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms.

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.

The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

When dealing with people, let us remember that we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. ...Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.

Vampires bore a grudge longer than any technically living creatures, and whenever they were in a bad temper, they expressed themselves through murder.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

Human beings are special. We're creatures (we're not little gods), but we're also more than creatures. In fact, we're the most wonderful creatures in the world next to God.

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

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

The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

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

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.