Quotes About Animals

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.

We both loved the birds and animals and plants. We both felt far happier out of doors. I felt a peace in nature that I could never find in the human world, as you know.

The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.

Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.

Reverse petting zoo. You pet the animals, and they pet you back.

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.