{"quotes":[{"text":"Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.","author":"James Rollins","tags":["bears","mother-nature","mothers"],"id":10283,"author_id":"James+Rollins"},{"text":"Walk in kindness toward the Earth and every living being. Without kindness and compassion for all of Mother Nature’s creatures, there can be no true joy; no internal peace, no happiness. Happiness flows from caring for all sentient beings as if they were your own family, because in essence they are. We are all connected to each other and to the Earth.","author":"Sylvia Dolson","tags":["animals","bears","inspirational","joyful-living","wildlife","wildlife-conservation"],"id":15572,"author_id":"Sylvia+Dolson"},{"text":"Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["bears","funny","kiss"],"id":19323,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"♫ Climbed that roost, alighted right there. Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare. Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear. ♫.","author":"Darrell Drake","tags":["almi","bad-poetry","ballad","bears","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","merill","where-madness-roosts"],"id":20195,"author_id":"Darrell+Drake"},{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["avoidance","bears","environment","nature","wildlife"],"id":46568,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Names have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the name.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["bears","destiny","fulfillment","goal","influence","life","name","purpose"],"id":96257,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The song was a sea-shanty, and Snugs loved that kind of song. The music had an accordion, and the tune reminded him of the ship, and the songs Captain LightOwler played, when he was off duty, about pirates and the baddies on the sea.","author":"Suzy Davies","tags":["animals","bears","children-s-books"],"id":139614,"author_id":"Suzy+Davies"},{"text":"He was just about to turn the light off, when there was a heavy, “Tappety, tap, tappety, tap,” on the door. It was the kind of loud sound that could only be made with a hoof. A moose’s hoof, that is.' - Snugs The Snow Bear.","author":"Suzy Davies","tags":["animals","bears","children-s-classics","children-s-fiction"],"id":143128,"author_id":"Suzy+Davies"},{"text":"Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger and the longing for unspoiled nature.","author":"Bernd Brunner","tags":["bears","thought"],"id":156065,"author_id":"Bernd+Brunner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}