Quotes About Animal

Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.

Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul.

Human beings evolved to reverberate with the emotional states of others, to the point that we internalize, mostly via our bodies, what is going on with them. This is social connectivity at its best, the glue of all animal and human societies, which guarantees supportive and comforting company.

There is so much resistance to the idea of animal culture that one cannot escape the impression that it is an idea whose time is come.

Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its skin, he said, or as we would nowadays put it, try to enter its Umwelt.

We now know that dogs and horses yawn in response to human yawns—dogs do so even if they only hear their owner yawning—and that yawns often spread among monkeys in a group. We

ethology's focus was on behavior that develops naturally in all members of a given species.

One can take the ape out of the jungle, but not the jungle out of the ape.

Charles Darwin himself had written a whole tome about the parallels between human and animal emotional expressions.

El animal queda reducido al estado de máquina de producir carne, leche o huevos.

Nos hemos convertido en un caso de manual: la única especie animal, junto con la rata topo, que extermina a sus propios individuos.

A este animal casi nunca se le olvida nada, con la excepción de ser ingrato. Es esa independencia más o menos despectiva la que siempre me ha parecido fascinante de los felinos.

Con el caso de Perdican pude calibrar esa arbitrariedad que la especie humana ha implantado y con la que se otorga derecho de vida o muerte sobre las demás especies del planeta y decide, según su estado de ánimo, que este o aquel animal se como o no se come.

Holding a live chicken sounds disgusting." "Better than holding a dead one.

To somebody who hasn't had any milk, do you look like a guy or a cow?" Seth asked. Brunwin glared. "I mean bull," Seth amended. "A guy or a bull.

Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

It was with some pride that she screwed the tops onto the bottles of milk. Nearly four ounces in each. She pressed the pair of bottles, warm with her milk, against her cheeks. Partway the accomplishment of an animal, partway the accomplishment of a deity.

Man is a predatory animal. He lives by eating other animals and he enriches himself by stealing that which belongs to his neighbor. Hence the history of the world is the history of war.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. Let a man have thought what he will of Nature in the house, she will still be novel outdoors. I keep out of doors for the sake of the mineral, vegetable, and animal in me.

Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Years and years ago, I was obsessed with these Pamela Love necklaces, and they had a claw, like an eagle claw, which was silver. Then I found one on this random website. I thought it was a fake claw, and when it arrived, it was a real one, cut off from the animal! It came to my house, and it was disgusting; it was a chicken claw or something.

Like SARS or Ebola, COVID-19 seems to be another disease that has jumped from the animal kingdom to the human and then traveled quickly because of trains, cars, airplanes, and people clustering in public places.

My beloved dog defied treatment from the best and most expensive veterinarians, holistic practitioners, trainers, and animal communicators. He was simply beyond my ability to repair or control.