We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, in a faraway land, four blind wise men were asked to describe the true nature of an elephant.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't like to be dismissive of whales speaking possibilities. There is a pretty New Age-y, poorly thought set of ideas about… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
A lot of passes that I throw, some of them are kind of thread-the-needle type of passes, and I know Year 1… — Bam Adebayo Copy Share Image
Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this… — Tuvia Bielski Copy Share Image
Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical… — Francis Lawrence Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and… — Marcus Hudson Copy Share Image
My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed.… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
If he had unlimited money at his disposal, he might go into the wilds somewhere and shoot big game. I never know… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I used to say... 'Don't sweat the small stuff -- not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
