Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all…

Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature…

— Michael J. Fox

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

The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands…

— John Gorrie

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as…

— Vernor Vinge

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Gene Baur

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

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

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

— Mak_786

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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