“Interestingly, when you look at the entire literature on animal-assisted therapy, patterns begin to emerge. Of the different animals used in therapy,… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines… It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different.… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Why did it happen? The big dog got fed. And when the big dog was fed, the little dog even got some… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion'… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Since the discovery of oxygen the civilised world has undergone a revolution in manners and customs. The knowledge of the composition of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
I really loved my dogs. Everyone laughs at me for it, but it's true. The time I spent with them, running, hunting,… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior;… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between… — Du Fu Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Being a voice for animals is something that has been so close to my heart since I was a little girl which… — Kenya Kinski-Jones Copy Share Image
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
“Despite my deep unease about animal advocates working for things we don't want and asking for changes we don't believe in, I… — Sarahjane Blum Copy Share Image
We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities...… — Craig Rosebraugh Copy Share Image
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Men are having sex with animals and we wonder why the animals attack us. And I'll tell you why: it's cuz of… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasn’t it bothered… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Dogs get after big living. They seem illiterate of worry, yet able to read joys that elude us. They quietly shout to… — Michael Cogdill Copy Share Image
“It’s Thursday the first time I see it. I know that it’s Thursday because Thursday nights are the nights my dog, Lily,… — Steven Rowley Copy Share Image
I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously Sometimes, of course, I want to let it… — Rima Fakih Copy Share Image
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image