Alfred, Lord Tennyson Quotes

Nature is a series of murders.

But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

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

God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

Life eats life to live.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

It's a god-eat-god world.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?