“Kindness is many things,” he said. “It is gentle. Tender. Tolerant. It is born of patience and faith. And sometimes, yes, it’s… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo, since the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in.… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
“One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless… I have accepted the fact, hard as it may be, that human… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Mary tucked into a ball, shielding herself from the tail's barbs. She covered her ears and closed her eyes, cutting off the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a diehard animal lover - I've always loved animals - but it was just one of those trips that I felt… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them… — Chris Palmer Copy Share Image
“In the very earliest times, when both people and animals lived on earth, a person could become an animal if he wanted… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
“There are lots of animals in the house. There's an elephant in the hall, a seal in the bathtub, a crane in… — John Burningham Copy Share Image
Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards.… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Riding out with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt, White recorded the first time he saw a kill with distanced fascination. The… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I, like balloon animal hacks everywhere, can only make one animal so far. It is a LEGO version of the Island of… — Jonathan Bender Copy Share Image
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world… — Max Picard Copy Share Image
“Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“...she sometimes felt so alone she worried she might vanish like the ink in an overused book. But here, with wildlife all… — Emma Törzs Copy Share Image
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Above the rustic stone fireplace was a deer's head-but not an everyday deer's head. This mangy thing surveyed the room with a… — Charlotte McPherren Copy Share Image
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
