“On the 15th of May, in the Jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing… enjoying the jungle's great joys…
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.”

“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

John Wyndham book The Midwich Cuckoos

“There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

“Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.”

Gerald Durrell (1925–1995) naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter

“Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.”

Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader

“Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

“Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

“When the attentions change / the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive”

Charles Olson (1910–1970) American writer

“Life is a zoo in a jungle”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States