Quotes About Animals

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

But there you put your finger on what it is that separates the sheep from the goats, and vice versa: imagination. Those who possess it have an afterlife; those who don't possess it, or in whom it has greatly atrophied, are reborn as plants or animals. It's as simple, and unfair, as that. You could almost say that heaven is no more than a fantasm generated by the excess energies of the pooled imaginations of the blessed.

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

THERE ARE CURRENTLY VERY CLOSE TO TEN thousand species of birds in the world, both beautiful and improbable, and they have contributed more to the study of zoology than almost any other group of animals (Konishi et al. 1989). The reasons are obvious: birds are diurnal, they are often easily observed and studied, and we like them.

I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

I had two roosters at one point ,and that was pretty noisy. Our neighbors didn't like us very much. They would crow at the same time. That's why we had them in soundproof kennels.

I don't have any conversations where I'm not talking about my dog.

Have you ever noticed how a cat stretches after a nap? We can learn from watching animals.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!

Dog obesity is a big problem in this country.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.

I'm animal obsessed! I basically have a farm in my house.

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And my father was obsessed with beauty everywhere - in art, in nature, animals.

It's pretty obvious I love animals.