“Don’t feel like a failure if you can’t make a social butterfly out of the dog you rescued from a nightmarish beginning.… — Patricia B. McConnell 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
“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they… — Orson Scott Card 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
“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
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp 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
Hugh consoled me, saying, "Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at." When asked for some… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy 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
For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“untrained dogs and they will urinate over them. Purchase a crate or cage that is big enough for your pup to lie… — Cynthia Lynden Copy Share Image
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The mezklete bustled up to them, pushing its little cart with its furry paws. Mezkletes love parties, love to give food, love… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention… — Mike Farrell 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 have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty… — Ingrid Newkirk 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
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they… — Lauren Oliver 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
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
People in some situations act worse than animals. You can't be a judge if you try to be a robot. Because then… — Sonia Sotomayor 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
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
