“To every creature is given both a place and a time, and when that time is over, we have to let them… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds… — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The cat, an introduced animal, is not needed here outside of buildings. It has disturbed the biological balance and has become a… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Who is to say that animals are dumb? When a tsunami is about to come, animals run to higher ground. Humans stay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in work-ing with the animals.… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
“There are very remarkable mysteries about the fact that we’re able to do so many more things than apparently animals can do,… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the… — Buddha Copy Share Image
I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an “inner model” of the world,” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“fighting off many creatures that you’ve probably read about in your stories: giant boars, bears, wyverns, phoenixes, cows. In the wilderness, everything… — Virlyce Copy Share Image
When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Unlike captive animals, people’s perceptions of control or helplessness aren’t entirely dictated by outside forces. We have the ability to create choice… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
In scripture God brings the animals to the human for naming. In that simple act the human is brought to recognize the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise… — John Durant Copy Share Image
“The Wolf hurled himself into the midst of the hobyahs with a roar that shook the ground, and the creatures screamed in… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.” — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“The jungle is like a different planet — a world of shadows, bugs, jaguars, anacondas. But none of these animals did us… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the… — Fuller Albright Copy Share Image
The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Here's a suggestion for a new animal, if some new ones get created or evolve: something that stings you, then laughs at… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image