Ken Follett Quotes

Nature is a series of murders.

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

Life eats life to live.

Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

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

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

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

It was a pretty good year for predators.

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.

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!

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.

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.

You've got to go out there and kill what you're going to eat.

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

We eat, therefore we hunt.

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

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

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

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.

The sea is a place where every day, half the population eats the other half.

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.