45 Bear Quotes Full Of Wisdom And Charm

"The many surviving stories about bears reveal the variety of roles that they have played in the human imagination, from enemies of mankind to their protective spirits."
- Bernd Brunner

"As the animal that, perhaps more than any other, embodied the pagan concept of a kinship between man and nature, the bear play."
- Bernd Brunner

"It would be fitting, I think, if among the last manmade tracks on earth would be found the huge footprints of the great brown bear."
- Earl Fleming

"Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby."
- James Rollins

"Bears not only make the habitat rich, but they also enrich us just by being."
- Linda Jo Hunter

"The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears."
- Rick Bass

"He tried to act like a bear, and for us on the island, you don't do that. You don't invade on their territory… For him to act like a bear the way he did, to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and what the bear represents."
- Werner Herzog

"Bears with their great size and strength, remind us of how weak and ineffectual we are as organisms: a bear, even a small one, could abolish a human fairly easily."
- Charles Fergus

"Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of World World I and World War II combined."
- Peter Gaulke

"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall!"
- Leslie Nielsen

"I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there."
- Desiigner

"He admired bears because everyone was afraid to disturb them while they slept and fish were so in love with bears that they jumped right into their mouths."
- Robb Todd

"Black bears are much more adaptable, and willing and able to live in a much closer proximity to people."
- Linda Masterson

"Black bears can survive–and even thrive–on the fringes of civilization, or sometimes right in the midst of it."
- Linda Masterson

"Haven't you ever thought of living unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and fire?"
- Nâzım Hikmet

"Bears keep me humble. They help me to keep the world in perspective and to understand where I fit on the spectrum of life. We need to preserve the wilderness and its monarchs for ourselves, and for the dreams of children. We should fight for these things as if our life depended upon it, because it does."
- Wayne Lynch

"The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk."
- Lydia Millet

"I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes."
- Lydia Millet

"Those who have packed far up into grizzly country know that the presence of even one grizzly on the land elevates the mountains, deepens the canyons, chills the winds, brightens the stars, darkens the forest, and quickens the pulse of all who enter it. They know that when a bear dies, something sacred in every living thing interconnected with that realm…also dies."
- John Murray

"The problem is that bears are pretty smart and humans aren't: we'll move into a remote area and leave a bag of dog food on our front porch and then panic when we see a grizzly bear helping himself to a meal."
- Bruce W. Cameron

"Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey."
- Craig Childs

"I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?"
- Penny Lancaster

"For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive – and thrive. ‘Harsh' to us is ‘home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away."
- Sylvia Earle

"We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it."
- Lewis Gordon Pugh

"Many people are working to slow global warming. They hope that polar bears will benefit from their work."
- Christina Wilsdon

"Bears project a mighty physical presence and a capacity for action. They are smart, something that often becomes apparent the moment you come face-to-face with one."
- Charles Fergus

"This is a cold, stark world, but to polar bear mothers and cubs, it's paradise."
- Stephen Judson

"The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting."
- Lydia Millet

"Two bears in one cave will not end well."
- Mongolian Proverb

"A bear is just a bear until it's confronted with something it can't handle. Then it's a survivor."
- Bear Grylls

"When you are where wild bears live you learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself."
- Linda Jo Hunter

"I'll never be like other people, but that's alright because I'm a bear."
- Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington

"Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears."
- Joseph Monninger

"The great attraction everywhere would be Simon Smith and his dancing bear. It's Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear."
- Jim Henson

"When all the dangerous cliffs are fenced off, all the trees that might fall on people are cut down, all of the insects that bite have been poisoned and all of the grizzlies are dead because they are occasionally dangerous, the wilderness will not be made safe. Rather, the safety will have destroyed the wilderness."
- R. Yorke Edwards

"We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness."
- Lydia Millet

"A teddy bear is the kid’s first friend and the memories they make with them stays longer than their childhood."
- Sarvesh Jain

"I love little teddy bears and little fluffy animals. I buy them all the time."
- Alessandra Ambrosio

"Most people say, Show, don't tell, but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do."
- Colson Whitehead

"The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life."
- Willard Gaylin

"I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears."
- Peta Wilson

"Bears are sort like people. They sit and stand, like people do. They use their paws like hands. Bears eat vegetables, meats and sweets."
- Diana Star Helmer

"It's a bear! Granted, it seems like a very intelligent bear, but it's still a bear! It has no concept of revenge."
- Christopher Barnard

"Bears rose to the top of the food chain solely so they could dedicate half their lives to sleep. It's the world's most intimidating power nap."
- James Breakwell

"It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare."
- Peter Gaulke