“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.”– Samuel Butler Related Quotes “It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.”– Robert Shea “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”– Garrison Keillor “All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.”– Marquis de Sade