If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
People may hope that the meat they buy came from an animal who died without pain, but they do not really want… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When he comes, he makes a noise deep in his throat that is so raw and animal and sexual that I think… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You know where we got stuck? We were looking for faithfull, loving and perfect relationships-males who were always glad to see us."… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
There was a pony named Barbapoppa that I received at the age of five, and he was very mischievous and maybe even… — Chantal Sutherland Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“A woman from the Hunan Province told it to me,” said Charon. “Once upon a time a stranger came to a remote… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“bells. “I accept your kind invitation,” Zelikman said. “My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare.” The elephant gave… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters.… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages, with nothing to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Elephants also have the necessary neural anatomy for long-term memories—their brains have especially large and complex frontal lobes, which are important for… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
When I was thinking up that title, I was taking it from a more cynical approach. Saying 'God Save the Animals' wasn't… — Alex G Copy Share Image
"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world… — Ali Banisadr Copy Share Image
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already… — Robin Downing Copy Share Image
I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image