Animals and Nature

At whatever time the deed took place— MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,

I should have been a pair of ragged claws

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the

I think that the river

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree

I know why the caged bird sings!

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there.

‘To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.’

‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’

The giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.

On a huge hill,

Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant,

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. of the Treasury Bench

Kent, sir—everybody knows Kent—apples, cherries, hops, and women.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

My man Friday.

They go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

[Natural selection] has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

What a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.