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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle." »Colin Wilson
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"Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time." »Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle." »Peter De Vries
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"The jungle is dark but full of diamonds..." »Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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"Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." »Bill Cosby
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"If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have 'under' in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry." »Andrew Schneider
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." »John Dewey
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"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable." »Robin Green
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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