jungle quotes

New York is a jungle, they tell you.You could go further, and say that New York is a jungle. New York is a jungle. Beneath the columns of the old rain forest, made of melting macadam, the mean Limpopo of swamped Ninth Avenue bears an angry argosy of crocs and dragons, tiger fish, noise machines, sweating rainmakers.

- Martin Louis Amis
  Money.

The courts of Europe are a jungle, compared to which your jungles here are a well-kept garden.

- Robert Oxton Bolt
  Linedeliveredby Ray Mc Anally as Cardinal  Altamirano in The Mission.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

- Countee Cullen
  On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

- Armand Hammer
  Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

Motor racing is dangerous; but what is danger? It is dangerous to climb a mountain. It is dangerous to cross main roads. It is dangerous to explore a jungle.One cannot frame regulations to make everything safe.

- Mike Hawthorn
  Shortly before his death. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   Here, even the law of the jungle has broken down.

-Walid Jumblatt
  Of the situation in Beirut, in the Sunday Times, 29 Dec.

   A man-cub isa man-cub, and hemust learn all the Lawof the Jungle.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Jungle Book,'Kaa's Hunting'.

Now this is the Law of the Jungleas old and as true as the sky; 471

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling

Mumbo-Jumbo is dead in the jungle.

- (Nicholas) Vachel Lindsay
  The Congo and Other Poems,'The Congo', pt.3.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  In Dissent, Summer.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

- Desmond John Morris
 The Human Zoo, introduction.