You wild, dear creatures!

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear…

— Anne Bronte

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves…

— Frans Lanting

You can't just go and collect animals from the wild. It's totally illegal.

— Terri Irwin

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural…

— Tristram Stuart

Are humans ever going to get smart enough to realize how cruel it is to eliminate entire species that we think are annoying? Will…

— Jomon Johny

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then…

— Anonymous

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

— Annie Dillard

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

— Jodi Picoult

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship…

— Seth

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

— John Updike

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or…

— Alexander Pope

Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with…

— Dan Mathews

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect…

— Cesar Chavez

I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one…

— Joaquin Phoenix