Quotes About Animals

it annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

The method of learning by trial and error—of learning from our mistakes—seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practised by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. —Paul Valéry

From The Old Order ] The Grandmother always treated her animal friends as if they were human beings temporarily metamorphosed . . .

There must be a great many of them here who think as I do, and we dare not say a word to each other out of our desperation, we are speechless animals letting ourselves be destroyed, and why? Does anybody here believe the things we say to each other?

Some people collect stamps or beer mats; Mum collected waifs and strays, cats, dogs, frogs, people, and as she believed, a whole host of "little people." Had she been confronted that night with a lion,she'd have made the same comment "The poor thing.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.

How I will miss the horses.

He settles on the Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

Toads, beetles, bats.

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

It can be shattering when these creatures die.

Animals enrich our lives in countless ways, with their playfulness, their tranquility, their constancy, and their love. If they can help us remember that death is not our enemy but simply one more moment in the world's endless process of becoming, dissolution, and renewal, they will have imparted a final gift.

Animals often understand more of these matters than most people imagine.

The combination of touch and talk with an animal seems to be even more beneficial than similar contact with another human being.)

Until one has loved an animal," wrote Anatole France, "a part of one's soul remains unawakened." Almost anyone who has ever let an animal under his or her skin will agree that for all the aggravations and heartaches that come with having a pet, the return in love, affection, and memory can make it all worthwhile.

If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

When it comes to animals, we suffer from moral schizophrenia.

The notion that animals are not self-aware is based on nothing more than a stipulation that the only way to be self-aware is to have the self-awareness of a normal adult human. That is certainly one way to be self-aware. It's not the only way.