A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
Woman is God’s supreme creation. Only after the earth had been formed, after the day had been separated from the night, after… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Ugh, puppy mills. These commercial breeding facilities are horrendous. The animals are kept in tiny wire cages, with little to no human… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
I had read the Animal House script, and by hook and crook, I finally got an audition. It was a great one.… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“he debuted the Cozy Dog—the first corn dog on a stick. At first, he wanted to call his creation the “Crusty Cur,”… — Will Pearson Copy Share Image
I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Good quote: Lee was thirty-nine, still what we would consider a fairly young man, but for the dog-for all dogs- time dashes… — Susan Orlean (Rin Tin Tin Copy Share Image
“The relationship between a dog and a human is always complicated. The two know each other in a way nobody else quite… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years there will be about 100 000 people who will be preparing the way for themselves with the… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
“bells. “I accept your kind invitation,” Zelikman said. “My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare.” The elephant gave… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
“A woman from the Hunan Province told it to me,” said Charon. “Once upon a time a stranger came to a remote… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories—their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters.… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image