Quotes About Animals

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?' 'Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.' (...) 'And?' 'Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

But if it were only a matter of attracting success and good fortune to his city and his empire, then being pronounced a god would have meant little more than being appointed a kind of national or city mascot – a role mostly played for us by pet animals these days.

PETA, she'd change the name to People for Especially Tasty Animals. But

Intact forest ecosystems, by comparison, provide more ecological services than just board feet of lumber. They clean the water, provide shade, and give communities plants, insects, and animals. Protecting our forests is essential not only for our survival now, but also for the survival of generations to come.

I grew up with the Kips. For them, sex doesn't get all tangled up with guilt or expectations. It's something you do with your body, like hunting." "There are people who'd tell you we're exactly like the animals. Same appetites, same urges. It's a nice idea.

The animals were like a storm moving whole, and then breaking, every strategy falling away, all caution gone. In the last few furlongs, nothing mattered but legs and length. Dynasty sailed through the final contenders and gained on the favourite, who seemed to stand still for her alone. She ran as if she were flying. As if she were dreaming the win, or winning in someone else's dream. Then her nose was at the tape. The crowd exploded. She'd done it. I

The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

I fall short of her standards. She made me buy cat food that hasn't been tested on animals. My cats took one bite of it, spit it out, and yelled, "Did no one test this?

Similarly, animals lack the ability to exercise limit-acts, which require a decisive attitude towards the world: separation from and objectification of the world in order to transform it.

I've yet to meet a deceitful dog. The truth is, I like most animals better than I like most people. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

See how her expression changes when she looks at you? It's the love light shining from within...Lucky we are when we're seen through the light of love, be it shining in the eyes of human or beast. Some folks go all their days without ever seeing it directed at them. It's a splendid, special look. Cherish it. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

Everybody is born so they can learn how to live a good life loving everybody and being nice. Animals already know how to do this, so they don't have to stay as long.

Man resembles no carnivorous animal.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

I found that, if given appropriate guidance, human beings can and do shake off the effects of overwhelming events and return to their lives using exactly the same procedures that animals use.

Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct conflict with long-held beliefs and well-established practices, on the other hand, and with the urban romanticisation and anthropomorphization of animals (the Bambi syndrome), on the other. We need to change how we do things, but in ways that are driven as much by a respect for science and the realities of nature as by emotion.

What does it feel like to be an octopus? To be a jellyfish? Does it feel like anything at all? Which were the first animals whose lives felt like something to them?

No one who has lived side by side with animals that have plenty of room can ever visit the zoo.

En enstaka glödlampa i taket kastade ett milt, gyllene ljus över de lyssnande djuren. Han hade läst hos Martin Buber att det är de mest andliga människorna som står djuren närmast. Också hos Eckehart. I Guds rike är de nära. Det är hos djuren man ska söka Gud.

El cansancio abre, le hace a uno poroso, crea una permeabilidad para la epopeya de todos los seres vivos, incluso de estos animales de ahora

I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made up constellations. I made a Bear and a Goat but maybe not where they are supposed to be, I made some for the animals that once were, the ones I know about.

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.