In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd found one on the beach,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
“Maybe creatures that are not like each other are supposed to hurt each other to find out which one is stronger, so… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“So all this time you thought I was a vampire? ' Edwart whispered furiously, pulling me a few inches to the left.… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at… — Janet Taylor Lisle Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
PETA is such an important cause to me. The mistreatment of animals is something that just really gets me. I feel it's… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
“The birds screeched and continued to dive at us. One of them settled on a nearby branch and began berating us. I… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
People are seen as sheep, and as their way of seeing that, propagandists and wicked hypocrites say they are animals and so… — Shawn G Cullen Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, about eight, I remember going into the Body Shop - that was my first introduction to… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Large shapes — like wings — float up to her, opening and closing — gently at first — until they slowly fill… — Unica Zürn Copy Share Image
“You Americans. You suppress the body of its desires, and treat the heart as if it is a wild animal to be… — Louisa Edwards Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Animals don't know exactly what will happen when they die any more than we do. In the absence of specific knowledge, they… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Pet owners like to think of themselves as the parents of their animals, but they overlook the fact that the ‘children’ they… — Charles Danten Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“there is nothing more gullible in the whole animal world than a human being? One has this hysterical belief in the non-recurrence… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong -… — Doug Baldwin Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image
“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires,… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The term ‘female’ is derogatory not because it emphasises woman’s animality, but because it imprisons her in her sex; and if this… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One of my obsession is animals. I'm into dog rescues. It drives me crazy when people go to pet stores and buy… — Jim O'Heir Copy Share Image
What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Healing is about choices—choices to treat or not to treat, to choose one type of intervention over another, or to choose one… — Wanda Buckner Copy Share Image