Charles Darwin Quotes

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Big fish eat little fish.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

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.

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

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.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Life eats life to live.

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

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?