Jungle Quotes
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
Rudyard Kipling
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
Rudyard Kipling
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No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
Bernard Berenson
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
Stephen Fry
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A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.
Cassie Steele
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I've got a certain derring-do about me. I'm an explorer for the truth in a jungle of political overgrowth.
Gatewood Galbraith
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
Rudyard Kipling
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Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.
Steven Curtis Chapman
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When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.
Michael Landes
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
Jimmy Buffett
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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.
Michael Morpurgo
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Today the world is a big jungle.
Roberto Cavalli
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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We too watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
Miriam Makeba
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Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
William Tenn
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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
Rudyard Kipling
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I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
Johnny Giles
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Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.
Slick Rick
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But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
Roberto Clemente
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A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.
Zoe Helene
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The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.
Ray Bradbury