Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose…

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

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Humans are animals too, but some do not like to work from expectations.

— Mak_786

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to…

— Konrad Lorenz

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

— Ernest Becker

We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe.

— Anonymous

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

— Gene Baur

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

— Richard Dawkins

“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

— Helen Fisher

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

“Plenty of animals had pets, but few were more devoted than the mouse, who owned a baby corn snake—“A rescue snake, she’d be quick…

— David Sedaris

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

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

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