The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the… — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
If I could I would run over every mother fucker who abuses animals, people, kids, I would. I'd run them over once… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Life is enhanced so much by dogs. When your kids get to an age where they don't want to cuddle you as… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments take action, we should avoid supporting… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Please, if necessary, blame my British indoctrination or blame my affiliation to the MSPCA (the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty… — Nick Trout Copy Share Image
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many… — Manfred Kyber Copy Share Image
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked,… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
Almost everything we do is automatic, yet we're not aware of that. We feel like there's a circle of light. We're like… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
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