'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
If I could be any animal I'd probably be a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wing span. Being able to… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
“Local recruits made regular night trips past villages on the city’s outskirts just to make guard dogs bark, which became such a… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward.… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
I'm not really a political animal but I am rather fascinated by the meltdown of England and America. In the end, it… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Why...is the hunter who shoots a deer for venison subject to more criticism than the person who buys a ham at the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Contrafreeloading,” a term coined by the animal psychologist Glen Jensen, refers to the finding that many animals prefer to earn food rather… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different--cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness--but because… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control… — Caroline Paul Copy Share Image
“Animals are safer than men. They act on instinct and have no capacity for evil. Dogs can bite you. Cats can scratch… — Octavia Wildwood Copy Share Image
“For the dog, colour doesn't matter, reputation doesn't matter, wealth doesn't matter. Dogs see us all as equals. They live in the… — Noel Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Elephants are therefore left only the option of being afraid of little things that sneak up and surprise them. Such things include… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Human aggression is instinctual. Humans have not evolved any ritualised aggression-inhibiting mechanisms to ensure the survival of the species. For this reason… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you… — Cynthia Lord Copy Share Image
When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to… — Tamara Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as… — Gary Player Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore:… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches… — Betsy King Copy Share Image
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
