Andrew Vachss Quotes

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley

Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

You're a Dhampir," I breathed. "So are you." he teased. "Yeah, but I just thought—" "That I was human? Because of the bite marks?" "Yeah." I admitted, No point in lying. "We all have to survive," he said "And dhamphirs are good at figuring ways out to.

A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water... and when it comes down to get that water that's when you strike.

Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

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

It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, cover, cover. Make sure you're never exposed.

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.