Joy Adamson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
-- Joy Adamson

#Responsibility #Brain #Enough
[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.
-- Joy Adamson

#Moving #Animal #Warning
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.
-- Joy Adamson

#Nature #Men #Pyramids
How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?
-- Joy Adamson

#Nature #Real #Pride

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
No, you canâ€™t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, thatâ€™s enough.
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Joy Adamson famous quotes

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