The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You know the drill—your child cruises over to the coffee table and throws the remote control at the dog. But before he… — Denise Fields Copy Share Image
It's really up to the acting community to be willing to be educated about what performance capture is in order to fully… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of… — William James Copy Share Image
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that… — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
“The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. 'Cause they see change on the street all the time and it's driving… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test:… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave'… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
“Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk…but give… — John Napier Copy Share Image
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
Attitudes toward gays have shifted much like they have for animals. People have a hard time relating to those who are different… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
In America, I think we just keep adding, and that's our problem. We almost never subtract. We keep adding these boondoggles, and… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I was 'alone' amongst the animal kingdom and I required of myself to see what was truly going on inside me so… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
At The Humane Society of the United States, we know how difficult it is to prevent cruelty to animals in movies because… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I had walked down streets reading novels, waiting for my feet to get stuck in tar as I… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights -… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“The secret magic entrusted to dogs is that they will show you how to love. All you have to do is give… — Jennifer Skiff Copy Share Image
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