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Quotes About Animal

Having a pet spayed or neutered actually extends its lifespan by a few years and reduces any aggressive traits or tendencies.
~ Suzy Shuster
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'
~ Martin Chalfie
Why is man the being who won in the world of emptiness, dethroning all animal species? For he is closest to the perfection of emptiness.
~ Sorin Cerin
Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?
~ Sorin Cerin
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
~ Sri Aurobindo
I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence--the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves--to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.
~ Stanley Cavell
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself!
~ Andy Andrews
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
~ George Orwell
Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.
~ Subhash Kak
..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Human beings are so destructive," Malcolm said. "I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.
~ Michael Crichton
That is a transgenic animal. If he escapes he may transmit his genes to other parrots.
~ Michael Crichton
Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham.
~ Michael Pollan
It's astonishing, actually, how much anger an animal's assault on your garden can incite.
~ Michael Pollan
the whole problem of health in soil, plant, animal and man as one great subject.
~ Michael Pollan
They could see this dance of subjectivities because they cultivated the plant's-eye view, the animal's-eye view, the microbe's-eye view, and the fungus's-eye view—perspectives that depend as much on imagination as observation.
~ Michael Pollan
More than any other institution, the American industrial animal farm offers a nightmarish glimpse of what Capitalism can look like in the absence of moral or regulatory constraint.
~ Michael Pollan
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!
~ Dylan Lauren
My legacy is that Merck continues to do what Merck has always done, which is to make singular impact on human health and animal health around the world. It's that simple.
~ Kenneth Frazier
Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
~ George A. Moore
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
~ Alan Watts
It would be just my luck, of course, to be savaged by an animal with a flea collar and a medical history. I imagined lying on my back, being extravagantly ravaged, inclining my head slightly to read a dangling silver tag that said: "My name is Mr. Bojangles. If found please call Tanya and Vinny at 924-4667.
~ Bill Bryson