Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Mammals live in herds and packs and troops because there’s safety in numbers. A mammal doesn’t consciously decide whether to stick with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's sobering really," she thought, "how easy it is to reduce a human being to the state of an animal. You just… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I've been shooting with this gentle beast of an elephant for my film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' During the shoot, I got to… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
“How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand the life of any animal, we need to know what things are meaningful to it. The first… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Animals have an amazing capacity for love and they have limited vocabularies. They don’t know the meaning of words like betrayal, control… — Octavia Wildwood Copy Share Image
If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
“When a creature begins to emerge from it's chrysails there is a point at which it is neither one thing nor the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, in a faraway land, four blind wise men were asked to describe the true nature of an elephant.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I don't like to be dismissive of whales speaking possibilities. There is a pretty New Age-y, poorly thought set of ideas about… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We killed them all when we came here. The people came and burned their land The forests where they used to feed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Animals are the lower intelligent of creatures, yet God illustrates man as one of them. Why? To demonstrate to us how careless,… — Rosa Pearl Johnson Copy Share Image
Our houses are hosts to these creatures which are ultra-tiny (so small they were only first discovered in 1965) which live in… — David Bodanis Copy Share Image
“Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
“missions expert Miriam Adeney relates a story told to her by an African Christian friend: Elephant and Mouse were best friends. One… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
“They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're… — Anohni Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
An animal has been made by God just as you have been. He is therefore a fellowcreature. He has not the power… — Lord Baden Powell Copy Share Image
“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“And proceeded past Trevor Williams, former hunter, seated before the tremendous heap of all the animals he had dispatched in his time:… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
