Bears

"Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise."

"Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth; But after licking, it in shape she drawes, And by degrees she fashions out the pawes, The head, and neck, and finally doth bring To a perfect beast that first deformed thing."

"He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it."

"The grizzly bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware He has been eaten by the bear."

"Make ye no truce with Adam-zad—the Bear that walks like a man."

"When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."

"Magnificent bears of the Sierra are worthy of their magnificent homes. They are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for bears. They are the objects of His tender keeping."

"Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours, and was poured from the same First Fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy heaven or no, he has terrestrial immortality. His life not long, not short, knows no beginning, no ending."

"I have camped where the grizzly bears were plentiful. It is nice that they are on the planet and all that, but I prefer my grizzlies shy, not too hungry, and far enough away to be picturesque."

"The bears are just being bears. We are way more of a threat to them. Bear attacks are so rare. And fatalities are even rarer. The bears' lives are more at threat than ours in encounters."

"Some days you get the bear. Some days the bear gets you."

"In the night, imagining some fear, How often is a bush suppos'd a bear?"

"O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!"

"This is the chase: I am gone for ever. [Exit, pursued by a bear.]"

"(After scaring a bear by roaring at it) Yeah, that's right! Keep running, Boo-Boo! Overgrown furball."

"Bears kill bees! How'd you like his big, hairy head crashing through your living room?! Bitin' into your couch! Spittin' out your throw pillows! Rawr, rawr! [to the specialist] Okay, that's enough. Take him away."

"And he went up from thence unto : and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them."

"The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine."