Quotes About Animals

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colores, and animals.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.