Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos but in other respects it is light. There is nothing more animal-like than a… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“Universal dilemma of the real dog person: You leave the dog home, you worry what will happen to him when you’re out.… — Susan Conant Copy Share Image
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What I mean is, if you look at the behavior of an animal and ask, "Well, why did it do that?" and… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
“No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“For bonobos, a turbocharged sexuality utterly divorced from reproduction is a central feature of social interaction and group cohesion. Anthropologist Marvin Harris… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
... People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“One way to try to answer the question “What makes us human?” is to ask “What makes us different from great apes?”… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here… — Min Zhou Copy Share Image
“I pulled my suitcase out of the backseat of my bug, along with Cannoli's new travel case, a spiffy animal print pet… — Claire Cook Copy Share Image
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“We do this thing. We open our hearts to the world around us. And the more we do that, the more we… — Stuart McLean Copy Share Image
You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“A guy is walking along the road in Glasgow and sees a man with a humungous great dog on the other side… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hathi, the wild elephant, who lives for a hundred years and more, saw a long, lean blue ridge of rock show dry… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“She missed the autumn weekends at somebody's country house, leaf-fall and touch football, kids tumbling down grassy slopes, leaders and followers, all… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“The seeing-eye dog was giving a lecture called A Corpse Ate Death. There was an avant-garde orchestra accompanying ihs lecture. Dogs barked… — Miranda Mellis Copy Share Image
This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin.… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“Throughout this book we have repeatedly asked what makes humans superior to other animals. Dataism has a new and simple answer. In… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The moral? That life can be a stranger substance than a cliche life, that goldfinches should occasionally do things differently from their… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image