Animal Quotes
Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.
Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.
There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.
Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
Today, we take to task any governmental body that doesn't protect animals, and take legal action if necessary.
I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.
It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.
To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.