"I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being."

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Source : Terri Irwin (2008). “Steve & Me”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

Terri Irwin

#Animal Quotes #Battle Quotes #Piglet Quotes

“I don't know anyone my age.”
“Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.”
“Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.”
“A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.”
“I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.”
“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”
“The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Bloodless Sportsman"), 1922.
“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”

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