Quotes About Animals

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Radioactive waste in Coldwater Creek has caused a level of devastation that would be unfathomable if it weren't our reality. Our communities have seen hundreds of our neighbors sickened with rare cancers. Animals, birds, and insects have dropped dead in our neighborhoods.

As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

I've got some horses which, unfortunately due to my job, I don't spend enough time with them, but they're my release when I get home. I go down to the stables, muck 'em out and spend a bit of time with them and they love me and it's great just going home to see them.

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals.

It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

I love spreading the word and encouraging people to adopt from their local shelters. There are so many wonderful animals waiting for loving homes.

People often say to me, especially people from the press: 'Oh, you are so evil.' But I'm a gardener. I rescue animals in Palm Springs where I live.

I love the rabbits and the squirrels and the birds.

I am physically fit and I have a lot of stamina. It's because on the farm I am up at 6 A. M. doing chores. You will find me out in the paddocks, feeding the animals and picking up poo.

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Let us love dogs; let us love only dogs! Men and cats are unworthy creatures.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.