Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
Turn down the noise. Reduce the speed. Be like the somnolent bears, or those other animals that slow down and almost die… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
The natural world operates by its own set of rules. The animal world, all the places that are feral and ungovernable, that's… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The forest has shrunk And fear has expanded, The forests have dwindled, There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning,… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
“But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity.… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
We [human beings] are two-legged omnivorous animals, and this means that we have many ecological niches, regarding the possible places where we… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
“This animal, homely as a steam-roller, [is] the embodiment of salvation,” it wrote. “Peace, plenty, and contentment lie before us; and a… — Jon Mooallem Copy Share Image
Arguably, if you view a real barn in bright sunlight and close by, while fully alert and otherwise in good shape, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds… — Michael Klaper Copy Share Image
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
One suggestion is to regard your personality as a pet. It follows you around anyway, so give it a name and make… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Animals can sense peace or anxiety, dedication or disinterest. They’re incredibly attuned to people’s moods. They pick up things we’re not even… — Roan Parrish Copy Share Image
Animals see a video of the world. If an animal were only to see still images, how would its vision develop? Neuroscientists… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“But unlike human children, dogs don’t dream about or obsess over past experiences the way we do. They live in the moment.… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus,… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Not being able to touch the severely aggressive dog until after it has been sedated before euthanasia is just as sad, because… — Chris Sparks Copy Share Image
A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
You know a dog loves you for who you are; they don't know if you're a soccer player or not. Sometimes people… — Dries Mertens Copy Share Image
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very talented. I just had to… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
People in this country, Britons, have a special relationship with dogs. And like the millions of dog owners across our great nation,… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image