“Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
“Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth.… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth,… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
“I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to… — Martha Sherrill Copy Share Image
I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
. . . And so Charlie Asher . . . led an army of fourteen-inch-tall bundles of animal bits, armed with everything… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
“Up to now I have had fourteen, but they weren’t spread over my life equally, and for years and years at a… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
One of my guilty pleasures is George 'The Animal' Steele. I didn't like him, but I couldn't stop watching him when he… — Tyrus Copy Share Image
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out… — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. “I guess?” I said.… — John Green Copy Share Image
To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“And I’ll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals,… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
Often we blame the breed, but in my opinion, it's not the breed, it's the owner. The owner has to be the… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If… — Kim Carnes Copy Share Image
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again.… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image