Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretaker. The interrogation and screening can… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Bible nowhere says that animals are just made for human use. It does not say that the whole earth is just… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Your levels of cholesterol are primarily dependent on your own body's production rather than the result of eating animal fats. Moreover, some… — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s.… — Betty White Copy Share Image
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
If you ever had a pet, with me it was a dog, with that sort of unconditional love that only dogs can… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth is stumbling about the Stromonds' ballroom with all the grace of a baby elephant. Granted, she doesn't weigh much, but it… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Even in the best of times, when we’re not stressed or needy, many of us enjoy petting our dogs as much as… — Patricia B. McConnell Copy Share Image
Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
It's not really important that Tip was a good dog to hunt over, but it is important to me that she was… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
