Quotes About Animals

I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.

Gli animali che voi mangiate non sono quelli che ne divorano altri; voi non mangiate gli animali carnivori, bensì li utilizzate come modelli. Voi siete affamati unicamente delle creature dolci e gentili che non fanno alcun male a nessuno, che vi seguono, che vi servono, e che sono da voi divorate quale ricompensa ai servigi che vi rendono

Lina liked going to the market plaza. It was always alive with people and animals, and the market had things she'd never seen before-sandals made of old truck tires, hats and baskets woven of straw.

Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the fields, left their big, smelly plops all over.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.

Please be nice, be kind to stray animals, dogs, and adopt them.

In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

It is great to see people feeding stray dogs, taking care of them.

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.

It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.

Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.