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Top 20 Bernd Heinrich Quotes (2025 Update)

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Movement is the essence of life.”

1. “Movement is the essence of life.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest antelope, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or an antelope – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

2. “Every morning in Africa, an antelope wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest antelope, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or an antelope – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.”

3. “Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Deep down we are all still runners.”

4. “Deep down we are all still runners.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “The very idea of “managing” a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”

5. “The very idea of “managing” a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “In order to forge alliances, we first need worthy adversaries. Without adversaries, no alliances are necessary.”

6. “In order to forge alliances, we first need worthy adversaries. Without adversaries, no alliances are necessary.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running – and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”

7. “There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running – and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Around a bend, a pair of wood ducks makes squeaking calls and rises with splashing and then whistling wings. You do not see the male’s brilliant garb of red, purple, green, and blue. But you know you are hearing the jewels of the marsh.”

8. “Around a bend, a pair of wood ducks makes squeaking calls and rises with splashing and then whistling wings. You do not see the male’s brilliant garb of red, purple, green, and blue. But you know you are hearing the jewels of the marsh.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.”

9. “For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.”

10. “Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.”

11. “Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise wheel, they developed more brain cells and they learned faster than sedentary controls. I believe in mice.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.”

12. “We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “When you consider life as a whole, intelligence is a mere bristle on the hog.”

13. “When you consider life as a whole, intelligence is a mere bristle on the hog.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place by E. B. White.”

14. “There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dreams, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place by E. B. White.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Consciousness is not a thing. It is a continuum without boundaries. We can most readily see its presence or absence in the extremes. In mussels, and in men. Is one of those extremes for birds found in ravens? Is it of sufficient magnitude for us to detect with our feeble detectors, our minds?”

15. “Consciousness is not a thing. It is a continuum without boundaries. We can most readily see its presence or absence in the extremes. In mussels, and in men. Is one of those extremes for birds found in ravens? Is it of sufficient magnitude for us to detect with our feeble detectors, our minds?”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of less worth?”

16. “Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of less worth?”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “There is beauty not only in that things work, but how they work.”

17. “There is beauty not only in that things work, but how they work.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “We need to take exercise, and vitamins, when our normal life styles, and diet, are at odds with the ancestral conditions that shaped us.”

18. “We need to take exercise, and vitamins, when our normal life styles, and diet, are at odds with the ancestral conditions that shaped us.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “The newspaper, delivered daily to my mailbox, is a convenience I need to help start my fire in the morning. Not wanting to waste anything, I sometimes even read it.”

19. “The newspaper, delivered daily to my mailbox, is a convenience I need to help start my fire in the morning. Not wanting to waste anything, I sometimes even read it.”

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Bernd Heinrich Quote: “With ravens, the line between interpretation and fact is commonly a thin one, but as Mark Pavelka, who studied ravens for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, said, “With other animals you can usually throw out 90 percent of the stories you hear about them as exaggerations. With ravens, it’s the opposite. No matter how strange or amazing the story, chances are pretty good that at least some raven somewhere actually did that.” That is because ravens are individuals. Ants aren’t.”

20. “With ravens, the line between interpretation and fact is commonly a thin one, but as Mark Pavelka, who studied ravens for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, said, “With other animals you can usually throw out 90 percent of the stories you hear about them as exaggerations. With ravens, it’s the opposite. No matter how strange or amazing the story, chances are pretty good that at least some raven somewhere actually did that.” That is because ravens are individuals. Ants aren’t.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood, and woods. We burn it for heat. Some cut it for a living. Many earn their livelihood from it by making paper, if not toboggans, snowshoes, apple boxes, or canoes. But it all comes from trees. Trees are our lifeblood, in more ways that one. And that is the problem. There are woods, and there is wood, and the two have different uses.”

21. “Life here in this part of Maine is almost inconceivable without wood, and woods. We burn it for heat. Some cut it for a living. Many earn their livelihood from it by making paper, if not toboggans, snowshoes, apple boxes, or canoes. But it all comes from trees. Trees are our lifeblood, in more ways that one. And that is the problem. There are woods, and there is wood, and the two have different uses.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “America is an experiment,′ he said, and after a long pause continued, ’where the driving force is individuals chasing money. I would not risk my bones for a society guided by this principle.”

22. “America is an experiment,′ he said, and after a long pause continued, ’where the driving force is individuals chasing money. I would not risk my bones for a society guided by this principle.”

— Bernd Heinrich

Bernd Heinrich Quote: “Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee. – JOB 12:7.”

23. “Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee. – JOB 12:7.”

— Bernd Heinrich

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