Animals are happier than humans because they're like furry little existentialists, all living in the moment. Their collective motto: live fast, die… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man,… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Talking about muscles. They're like pets basically. They're not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have seen what is to come in this world and I understand how I fit in. I fit in protecting the… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacified to bring me a meal of… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The idea that we can have a new life form, what does it say about the zoo's main purpose, which is to… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
The thing I like to do best is my work for animals. Ive worked with LA Zoo and a number of other… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
“There's a card up in your little sweetshop advertising Pomeranian cross puppies free to a good home," he observed. "What's your point?"… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
