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Quotes About Animal

Dog accepts punish as something fair... No other animal will accept the punish just because it follows it's instinct.
~ J.M. Coetzee
As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog's big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and finding the long waves that flowed from the animal's broad, strong chest. Not that any of that meant he was keeping the the animal, of course. It just felt nice, was all.
~ J.R. Ward
Just be careful with my damn dog. That animal gets hurt and you and I are having words." Well
~ J.R. Ward
He shifted his eyes over and dodged the question. "Since when are you an animal lover?" "I hate this goddamn cat.
~ J.R. Ward
You tell me why's a man's blood is any better or any more precious than a dog's blood? It sure ain't to the dog.
~ Jack Ketchum
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.
~ Jack London
Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly... Irresistible impulses seized him. he would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring on his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, though the forest aisles.
~ Jack London
Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all.
~ Jack London
In dim ways he recognized in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild. Not alone out of his own eyes, but out of the eyes of all his ancestors was the cub now looking upon man.
~ Jack London
The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck
~ Jack London
A wolf does not think like a human.
~ Jack London
'Secretariat' was such a magnificent animal, unbelievably beautiful and powerful. It's always nice to see something that close to perfection, a reason to celebrate.
~ John Malkovich
Be contented with the things of the present. The cows and the dogs are, and so are all animals; and that is what makes them animals. So if man rests content with the present and gives up all search into the beyond, mankind will have to go back to the animal plane again.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.
~ Tana French
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn't exist, that didn't matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.
~ Tao Lin
Dogs: A New Understanding of Canine Origin,
~ Ted Kerasote
For the first three problems—roaming, mounting, and urine marking in the house—only 25 to 40 percent of the dogs showed any resolution. With aggression toward other dogs, one of the most common reasons cited by dog owners for castrating their animal, resolution of the problem was even lower: Only 10 to 15 percent of dogs who lost their balls also lost their desire to fight other males.
~ Ted Kerasote
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.
~ Rene Girard
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
~ Walter O'Brien