Robert Jordan Quotes

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

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

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

The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr. H. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, ... says "Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice." Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

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?

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

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.

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

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

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Big fish eat little fish.

Wolves can't catch what dogs do not expose.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

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

Crocodiles are an apex predator and crucial to the ecosystem, keeping waterways and wetlands healthy. Crocodiles eradicate the weak, sick, and injured wildlife, leaving only the healthy to prosper.