My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed.… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I didn't realize puppy mills were a problem until my wife, Bessy, and I got our first dog, Cannoli. Cannoli came from… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Water, water, water…There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Maybe your life resembles a Bethlehem stable. Crude in some spots, smelly in others. Not much glamour. Not always neat. People in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
I have done, I hope to say I've done things to help make a difference while I'm on this earth. Are animal… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
Often I feel powerless when I hear stories about animals in shelters across the country whose lives are taken simply because they… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
“Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food,… — Supa Nova Slom Copy Share Image
For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything… — Chris Pontius Copy Share Image
If there was a terrible storm outside, but somehow this dog lived through the storm, and he showed up at your door… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor;… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at… — John Rachel Copy Share Image
Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Take a look at all the third-world countries that are increasing the so called standard of living. One aspect of this rise… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image