Jim Butcher Quotes

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

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.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

The fox often offers the duck its pond.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

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

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

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

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.

Lions make leopards tame.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.