Quotes About Animals

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.

THE country round the Mill at Pontisbright at five o'clock on a June morning was of itself a spell. The near distance was dizzy with haze, the dew beads were thick on the grass, the waters were limpid and ringing, the birds sang with idiotic abandon, the air was scented with animals and a thousand flowers.

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

Don't you begin to see in this behavior that animals sacrifice themselves for the welfare of other types of life, instead of trying to eat as much as possible merely for their own existence or upkeep? The more one studies the behavior of animals and of plants, the more clearly one sees that they have a task to perform for the welfare of the whole.

Sin embargo, no le parecía que los escritores ni quienes compraban esos libros conocieran a los animales. Ella tampoco los conocía en absoluto. Eran criaturas. No eran humanos. Suponía que sus funciones se definían por el tamaño, la forma y la complejidad de su cerebro. Suponía también que poseían tenues, vacilantes e inarticuladas vidas psíquicas

Love turns animal into angel, but also conversely.

Why an inordinate interest in animals and athletes? They are subjects for art and exemplars of it, are they not? minding their own business. Pangolins, hornbills, pitchers, catchers, do not pry or prey—or prolong the conversation; do not make us self-conscious; look their best when caring least.

Camels are snobbishand sheep, unintelligent;water buffaloes, neurasthenic—even murderous.Reindeer seem over-serious.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor.Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

Cats know not how to pardon.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.