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Quotes About Animal

Vegans are still considered as sort of "out there," a fringe group of animal rights activists with pasty skin and protein issues. However
~ Steven D. Levitt
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
~ Steven Pinker
We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Love is the problem of an animal.
~ Ernest Becker
When we first began to perceive the unknown, chaotic, non-animal world, we used categories that had originally evolved to represent the pre-human animal social world. Our minds are far older than mere humanity.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
We remember, so to speak. We remain eternally nostalgic for the innocence of childhood, the divine, unconscious Being of the animal, and the untouched cathedral-like old-growth forest. We find respite in such things.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
It did not budge at all and he tapped it. The animal was dead. Doubtless accustomed to a sedentary existence, to a humble life spent underneath its poor shell, it had been unable to support the dazzling luxury imposed on it, the rutilant cope with which it had been covered, the jewels with which its back had been paved, like a pyx.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
~ Joseph Addison
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
~ Joseph Epstein
He was a farm cat too!
~ Erin Hunter
Runningkit yowled.
~ Erin Hunter
ANTPELT—brown
~ Erin Hunter
surprised a fox.
~ Erin Hunter
neatly tucking into a mouse
~ Erin Hunter
Sleekpaw was a yellow she-cat, and
~ Erin Hunter
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.
~ Ernest Becker
the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.
~ Ernest Becker
Civilized" society is a hopeful belief and protest that science, money and goods make man count for more than any other animal. In this sense everything that man does is religious and heroic, and yet in danger of being fictitious and fallible
~ Ernest Becker
Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.
~ Ernest Cline
AA 241:87—I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.
~ Ernest Cline
Todo o conforto tem de ser pago. A situação do animal doméstico arrasta atrás de si a do animal de abate.
~ Ernst Junger
Precocity is not the price of riding a bicycle, I think, so much as what it has to offer. Wind, a rush of blood, fissures and pits in the asphalt, an errant animal, eyes in a mirror, glint of sunlight on chrome, scent of lake water, catcalls, a soaring feeling. But that is not to say that liberation doesn't have a price.
~ Eula Biss
This one is called "Chunky Munky".' Nadia stopped with the spoon halfway to her mouth. 'But isn´t a monkey a small chattering Earth creature that lives in trees?' she asked faintly. 'Are ... are you telling me I´m eating chunks of its flesh?' 'Ugh.' Sophia shivered. 'What a thought! The poor monkeys!' Nadia felt ill. 'Is that why this stuff is called 'I Scream?' Because the animal screams when they make it into dessert?
~ Evangeline Anderson
I feel like if I had a spirit animal, it would be Holly Hunter.
~ Noel Wells