For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“The dogs came racing up the stairs. They danced at Rima's feet, frantic with the need to communicate something to her. Little… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“The dogs in Berlin do not have owners, they have partners. Every canine confidently trots beside its human counterpart, sharing an unspoken… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Whales are cultural animals, and we're cultural animals, so although we shouldn't expect whales to do what we do, it doesn't seem… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth… — William Lilly Copy Share Image
As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no… — Charles Mayo Copy Share Image
There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case.… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is… — John Grant Copy Share Image
“the relationship that Jane Goodall has with the chimpanzees of Gombe—and that Dian Fossey had with the mountain gorillas she studied, and… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding… — Tanner Colby Copy Share Image
When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this… — Jennifer Richard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, like that of the Americas, is… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
