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Quotes About Animals

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.
~ Unknown
The world isn't only meant for humans to enjoy it, it has also a duty to give animals rights and freedom.
~ Unknown
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
~ Noel Redding
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love birds never separate and they say birds of a feather flock together. Even animals and birds know the language of love. Love is all abounding and romance is a beautiful part of it.
~ Unknown
That painted ship of theirs was the finest thing about them. Their faces had lines like grandfathers. Their eyes were bloodshot and dead. They flinched from my animals. "Let me guess," I said. "You are lost? You are hungry and tired and sad?
~ Madeline Miller
I just love being around the animals. I enjoy their company, which probably sounds crazy, but I do. I particularly love their smell." "So do I," she said. "It's one of the great smells, actually, and traces of it are used in perfumes. It's called an animalic note." "Gosh," said Chum, "I wouldn't mind some of that. What's it called- Eau de Nag?" "Well, it's more of a hint deep inside a very complex blend of different smells, although one niche company does make a perfume called Stable.
~ Unknown
When all the mythologies have been set aside, we can see that, children or no children, the joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing.
~ Maggie Nelson
The joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing. But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't know. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.
~ Maggie Nelson
There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.
~ Maggie Q
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
No hay que confundir el sentido del número con la facultad de contar. Únicamente la inteligencia humana puede alcanzar un grado de abstracción capaz de permitir el acto de contar, aunque el sentido del número está presente en muchos animales.
~ Unknown
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
~ Unknown
Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
~ Malin Akerman
STOP IT! YOU'RE ALL BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS!' I shouted so hard my throat immediately began to hurt. 'WORSE THAN ANIMALS – LIKE BLANKERS!
~ Malorie Blackman
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
~ Marc Davis
An eagle soaring above a sheer cliff, where I suppose its nest is, makes another striking show of life, and helps to bring to mind the other people of the so-called solitude—deer in the forest caring for their young; the strong, well-clad, well-fed bears; the lively throng of squirrels; the blessed birds, great and small, stirring and sweetening the groves; and the clouds of happy insects filling the sky with joyous hum as part and parcel of the down-pouring sunshine.
~ John Muir
Some of the silly sheep got caught fast in a tangle of chaparral this morning, like flies in a spider's web, and had to be helped out. Carlo found them and tried to drive them from the trap by the easiest way. How far above sheep are intelligent dogs! No friend and helper can be more affectionate and constant than Carlo. The noble St. Bernard is an honor to his race.
~ John Muir
He (the Douglas squirrel) is the most influential of the Sierra animals, quick mountain vigor and valor condensed, purely wild, and as free from disease as a sunbeam.
~ John Muir
breakthroughs in the evolution of human consciousness will be the recognition of the subtle complexity and the hidden inner world that animals carry around with them. The innocence and silence of the animal world has a huge subtlety to it that is anything but dumb, but rather notices everything and is present in everything. Animals carry a huge ministry of witness to the silence of time and to the depth of nature. They are like the landscape in a sense: they live too in the mode of silence.
~ John O'Donohue
Zombies don't bother me, sir, Faith said, dimpling cutely. They're insane, hungry, angry animals. They won't kill me from professional courtesy, sir.
~ John Ringo
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
~ John Ruskin
The supermarket was a twenty-minute walk. Shay used the time to work on the thumb drive's password. Supposedly, the files on the drive were filled with horrible and inhumane things being done to animals, but Shay's only interest in discovering the password was to learn who
~ John Sandford
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
~ John Steinbeck