Quotes About The Jungle

#1. Remember, Bagheera loved thee," he cried, and bounded away. At the foot of the hill he cried again long and loud, "Good hunting on a new trail, Master of the Jungle! Remember, Bagheera loved thee.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. I love you, Quinn Shaughnessy. From the very first day when we snuck into my house and stole those chocolate chip cookies and then hid behind the jungle gym, I was hooked.

Samantha Chase

#3. But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.

Roberto Clemente

#4. The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

Tahir Shah

#5. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

#6. Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!

A.B. Guthrie Jr.

#7. Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt and sweat. I spend my days climbing trees and I can crawl out of bed and walk on set and that's exactly all I have to look like.

Evangeline Lilly

#8. If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.

Gautama Buddha

#9. If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

Neil Young

#10. I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.

Shane Smith

#11. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. That evening we sat around the campfire. The clouds that had gathered overhead all day broke up and the moonlight shimmered on the Cocus River. The current glittered a silvery reflection. Nor was the Jungle dark. Hundreds of fireflies danced about - it was a magnificent evening

Yossi Ghinsberg

#13. Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer.
Dante Pontis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams.

Henri Rousseau

#17. Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Harrison Ford

#18. Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Will Shetterly

#19. Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.

Jean Pigozzi

#21. I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

Roy Chapman Andrews

#22. Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."

Tom Cole

#23. George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

Brendan Fraser

#24. Otherwise, he would be far away in the jungle; tasting, touching, seeing, and feeling new things.

Rudyard Kipling

#25. The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Arthur Miller

#26. So you're reinstating the law of the jungle?" asks Mo.
"You were bringing it back, every time you filled your tank.

David Mitchell

#27. Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

Peter Gabriel

#28. Through the metal bars of the jungle gym, she watches two gray squirrels chase each other around a tree. Around and around and around. So gratuitous.

Thomas Pierce

#29. The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.

Tom Cole

#30. My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Julie Christie

#31. My heart is a drum, deep in the jungle of my chest, and it bangs and bangs and bangs for him.

Christina Lauren

#32. The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices.

Terry Pratchett

#33. No man's cub can run with the people of the jungle," howled Shere Khan. "Give

Rudyard Kipling

#34. I'm too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don't want to look desperate. You won't see me on 'Big Brother' or in the jungle.

Bobby Davro

#35. The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

#36. These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Allan Bloom

#37. From the very, very beginning, we made the decision that 'Tarzan' wasn't going to sing. My co-director, Chris Buck, and I said to each other that we couldn't imagine a half-naked man in the jungle simply bursting into song.

Kevin Lima

#38. 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

#39. She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#40. There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.

Jean-Pierre Melville

#41. Every person is a creator. We create with our ideas and beliefs. Our daily labor creates a worldly cocoon that enfolds us. We mold out of a granite substance not yet hardened the tutelary angels whose ideological formation will guide our passageway through the jungle of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#42. I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no other way, I would have gone into the jungle with you - forever.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#43. The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Jimmy Buffett

#44. A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.

Rudyard Kipling

#45. She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.

J.J. McAvoy

#46. [N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.

Charles E. Bohlen

#47. You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that

David Grann

#48. None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

Rudyard Kipling

#49. It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Max Frisch

#50. In Nam, the jungle's heat was heavy, and like a spoiled overweight child, it insisted on being carried everywhere.

Billy O'Connor

#51. Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.

Jessica Khoury

#52. The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#53. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

Steven Hardesty

#54. When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.

Henry Ian Cusick

#55. May I ask how your revolution's going?
Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.

Colin Cotterill

#56. When I was a tiny tot, we only had one record player in the house, so there was either Genesis on it or the Jungle Book or The Beatles as well, and various other things.

Rick Astley

#57. Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#58. I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

Wes Anderson

#59. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

Amitav Ghosh

#60. Yes, your man, Jane Porter. Your savage, primeval man come out of the jungle to claim his mate--the woman who ran away from him," he added almost fiercely.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#61. In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

Werner Herzog

#62. The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

Elaine Morgan

#63. Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Mohsin Hamid

#64. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#65. Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.

Colin Baker

#66. Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Duke Ellington

#67. Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Arthur Miller

#68. Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

Tom Johnson

#69. We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Barbara Kingsolver

#70. I wish to eat," said Mowgli. "I am a stranger in this part of the jungle. Bring me food, or give me leave to hunt here.

Rudyard Kipling

#71. I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

Bruce Springsteen

#72. You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

Barbara Kingsolver

#73. Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

George F. Kennan

#74. The men of Spain held ground for a little while, but then their hearts broke under their fine red coats, and they ran away to hide in the jungle.

John Steinbeck

#75. Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#76. I came home for a week after I finished filming 'Rambo' because, after being in the jungle for three months, all I wanted to do was walk in the Highlands.

Graham McTavish

#77. I've been to hell and back so nothing that happens in the jungle can be worse.

Paul Burrell

#78. Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

Joanna Lumley

#79. The laws of the jungle remind me of the laws of the street. When I came abroad, I had to learn a different set of laws. Everywhere we go there is a different set of laws. Most of them unwritten.

Heidi Heilig

#80. When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

Arthur Miller

#81. The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#82. You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby. You're gonna DIE!!!!

Guns N' Roses

#83. I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#84. 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

#85. I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

Werner Herzog

#86. The jungle changes a man.

Cynthia Kadohata

#87. Home? I have no home. Hunted, despised, living like an animal. The jungle is my home. But I will show the world that I can be its master. I will perfect my own race of people, a race of atomic supermen, which will conquer the world.

Ed Wood

#88. The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the law of the beast, and it knows neither reason nor compassion

Stephan Attia

#89. It was Barry Diller's idea to start 'The Daily Beast,' and he has turned out to be the best partner I've ever had. There's no one better to go into the jungle with.

Tina Brown

#90. There's not much pressure on the golf Tour. Walking to the first tee is in no way comparable to walking through the jungle in combat

Larry Nelson

#91. Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Ely Culbertson

#92. The ocean, the desert, and the jungle are the last strongholds and resorts of peace. ("Fear")

P.C. Wren

#93. If I were a wolf, I would howl. If I were a lion, I would oar. If we lived in the jungle, I would bring her a lion and a wolf to feast on. - Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#94. The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

Lane Kirkland

#95. If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.

Wes Fesler

#96. A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

Ramsey Clark

#97. The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

Levon Helm

#98. We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world ...

Jose Saramago

#99. Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

Tahir Shah

#100. Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.

Barbara Kingsolver