Arboreal Quotes

#1. MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Arboreal, a fine word. Our arboreal ancestors, Crake used to say. Used to shit on their enemies from above while perched in trees. All planes and rockets and bombs are simply elaborations on that primate instinct.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Jack London

#4. Its composure thoroughly disrupted, the little treelet, the picture of arboreal distress, let its branches droop a little, and its green birch leaves fluttered anxiously.

Lev Grossman

#5. If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Richard Preston

#6. Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin

#7. Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

#9. Beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Ellen Glasgow

#10. The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Matthew Arnold

#11. There is nothing entirely new under this or any other sun.

James White

#12. Give something of yourself to everyone, but never everything to someone.

Adish

#13. A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

Moby

#14. Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.

Tracey Gold

#15. From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Jake Barton

#16. A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Ferdinand Buisson

#17. In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Lauren Slater

#18. It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

Anne Bradstreet