The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'd hope that the story A Dog's Purpose helps everyone reflect on how many different "lives" we all live - from children… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Unwittingly, every event and every microorganism - insect, fish, bird, animal, etc. - is playing a role that maintains a perfect balance… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Life is enhanced so much by dogs. When your kids get to an age where they don't want to cuddle you as… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
If I could I would run over every mother fucker who abuses animals, people, kids, I would. I'd run them over once… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When… — Kim Deal Copy Share Image
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the… — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I suppose there's a time in practically every young boy's life when he's affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love. I… — Wilson Rawls Copy Share Image
The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings,… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals,… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body… — John M. Marzluff Copy Share Image