Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are… — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?' 'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat. Perhaps they feel… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves," he used to say. That doesn't make sense. 'That's what I… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Once we'd balled up our burrito wrappers and tossed them into the trash, Jake and I walked several blocks from El Farolito… — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
We know from the truths of evolution and ecology that we are all related and interdependent. Anthropomorphism (crediting animals with human emotions… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that… — Patricia Wright Copy Share Image
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though… — Dick Van Patten Copy Share Image
Looking through a child's eyes and knowing this was another planet, we decided to design the machines with eyes and bodies like… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It… — Jake LaMotta Copy Share Image
I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image