Quotes About Animals

for, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. Something within their territory has frightened them - the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise - and set off a flight reaction.... Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown.

The only way to make lasting change is to enlighten humans that they should treat all creatures with respect. They shouldn't eat them, steal their skin and fur, force them to do tricks for entertainment, and so on.

I am thoroughly convinced that these ignorant humans really think us other animals exist just to entertain them. How egotistical can they be?

if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can't pant while they gallop.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

I feel happier with animals than with people. When I watch my horse cantering freely across the fields— I am tempted to put my head against his soft, vigorous neck and narrate the story of my life. When I stroke my dog on the head — I know that he doesn't expect me to make sense or explain myself.

I'd done my practicum in one of the city's biggest shelters, witnessing the kinds of trauma no human would survive. The one lesson in all that? Animals feel. They're just as sensitive as we are, maybe more.

There are only two ways out for animals at pounds--being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound."

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He

Love is a word the English don't use except when they talk about their horses and dogs.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.

Los compañeros perfectos no tienen menos de cuatro patas.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Je kan aan dieren erg veel liefde kwijt. Dieren zullen nooit zeggen: 'Weet je wat? Ik ga alleen wonen. Ik kom nog wel 'ns langs om je onderbroeken te wassen.

Dondequiera que haya vida, sea en plantas o animales, existen siempre las enzimas. Las enzimas forman parte de todas las actividades necesarias para mantener la vida,