Quotes About Animals

The new way of life called for a discipline and a succession of duties that contrasted with the freedom of the gatherers and hunters... The domesticating of plants and animals was a two-way process.

Dismissing the idea that female choice could influence the direction of evolution began to look both sexist and unscientific. By drawing attention to the evolution of social and sexual behavior in animals, the sociobiology of the 1970s did for the study of animal sexuality what feminism did for the study of human sexuality. It empowered thinkers to ask "Why does sex work like this, instead of some other way?

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

Gabrielle: When I was a little girl, on Sunday mornings, if I'd been good, I was allowed to feed the giraffes. Richard: Giraffes! Don't tell me that you had giraffes too? Gabrielle: You mean you... Richard: But of course we did Gabrielle: Oh what fun. Both of us having had giraffes as children.

That was the problem with expectations: they were good only as long as they lasted. Better not to expect anything at all. Better to join the cold-blooded, big-eyed creatures slithering in the mud at the bottom of the canal, animals that didn't have to worry about love and hope and expectation. Because as soon as you grew two legs and learned to walk upright, you were pretty much doomed to a lifetime of disappointments.

Meow" means "woof" in cat.

Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.

You may call me Dr. Doolittle. I've sailed through the night and day, in and out of weeks, to where the wild things are and now I'm their private physician

That's the third dog in two weeks, Margaret said. It has to be a mountain lion.

L'uomo deve mostrare bontà di cuore verso gli animali, perché chi usa essere crudele verso di essi è altrettanto insensibile verso gli uomini.

Puoi conoscere il cuore di un uomo già dal modo in cui egli tratta le bestie.

It wasn't exactly what you'd call fear, rather a strange sadness – a sadness that had nothing human about it any more, for it lacked both courage and hope. This was how animals waited to die. It was the way fish caught in a net watch the shadow of the fisherman moving back and forth above them.

How irrevocably spoilt, down to its minutest detail, his world was now. Even the countryside was spoilt, the animals, the birds, the flowers. There was nowhere to run to.

We take a self-forgetful pleasure in the sheer alien pointless independent existence of animals, birds, stones and trees.

How strangely it excites people to see their dogs swimming!

In so far as there were mysteries and depths in my life I kept them secret from Christ and his soldiery. I was more moved by animals than I was by Jesus.

Leave it man. Squirrel's botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark's intae hurtin animals… it's wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that… ah mean… what hope is thir? The squirrel's likes fuckin lovely. He's daein his ain thing. He's free. That's mibble what Rents cannae stand. The squirrel's free man.

Genetic engineering is not really something new. Human beings have been fiddling with genes for as long as ten thousand years. That's how long they have been growing plants and herding animals.

But what about the creatures whose flesh he's carrying there? A few days ago they were alive. They too have souls. They too are God's children. They were quite possibly made of better material than human beings. Since they were sinless, they were certainly more innocent. But day after day they are ritually sacrificed-angels in the shape of oxen, calves, sheep. I once wanted to become a vegetarian. I wanted everything-and I never got further than wanting.

Habría que sentir una total indiferencia hacia el hombre y el animal para conseguir ser feliz.

Più volte ho pensato che per quanto riguarda il suo comportamento verso gli animali, ogni uomo è un nazista.

Captain Longfellow—who, like most Englishmen, was kinder to animals than to people