Quotes About Animals

Giraffe gestation is about thirteen to fifteen months.

Because it would be worse than never having them in the first place. I just enjoy the time I'm given with the animals.

They tumbled out of the van, eager to explore the docks. There were brown pelicans and sea lions, anemones and barnacles clinging to the planks and pilings, and silver flashes of schooling minnows in the shallows.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Ha, ha —Job 39:25

Tidy Tip: Dig deep, and be sure to cover the body in a heavy layer of slaked lime—also known as calcium hydroxide, or Ca(OH)—which accelerates decomposition and kills odors that attract animals who may want to dig it up. A layer of dirt, then another of the slaked lime before a final half-foot of dirt. The bugs will help finish the job!

Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

En todos los ocasos de la Humanidad ha surgido la tentación de endiosar a los animales: lo hicieron las civilizaciones bárbaras, de Egipto a Cartago, que imaginaron un panteón que era en realidad un zoológico amedrentador, poblado por alimañas; y lo volvieron a hacer las civilizaciones refinadas, cuando llegó su decrepitud

Nuestra época no cree en la vida más allá de la muerte por miedo a lo desconocido, por miedo a la existencia de una realidad que se hurte a su ciencia y a su técnica; y también porque, no creyendo en otra vida,se puede vivir esta como lo hacen los animales

Resulta, en verdad, muy expresivo del eclipse de conciencia de nuestra época que, a medida que se desprotege a los seres humanos más desvalidos, se convierta a los animales en sujetos de protección jurídica

El pretexto de elevar lo inferior siempre disfraza la pulsión de deprimir lo superior. A la postre, en todos los intentos de hacer a los animales titulares de derecho descubrimos el propósito de suprimir la realidad espiritual específica del hombre

To earn an ally, be an ally. Many, if not most, spirits possess sacred animals, plants, or places. Working on their behalf is an act of veneration and should eventually attract favor and attention.

Most spirits possess various forms, which they consistently assume. • Most also possess various preferences in food, fragrance, colors, and gifts. • Some spirits are identified with certain numbers, trees, animals, birds, or plants. • Individual spirits possess specific symbols, known as attributes, which serve as the equivalent of a calling card. Poseidon's attribute is a trident; Rosmerta's is a cornucopia

The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

Animal? As in lion and tiger and chipmunk? Who's he kidding?

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz (1939)

Ein Tier muss an nichts glauben außer an den unsinnigen Sinn des Überlebens. Allein, der pragmatische Mensch unterscheidet sich vom pragmatischen Tier in einer bedeutenden Einzelheit. Sein Spieltrieb erlischt nicht mit dem Eintritt der Geschlechtsreife. Sein Spieltrieb lebt ewig.

All the early stages took place in water: the origin of life; the birth of animals, the evolution of nervous systems and brains, and the appearance of complex bodies that makes brains worth having [...] When animals did crawl onto dry land, they took the sea with them. All the basic activities of life occur in water-filled cells bounded by membranes, tiny containers whose insides are remnants of the sea.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Dogs deserve proper names." "Cats, too?" "Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.