John Bachman Quotes

Men are like lions. We hunt.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.