“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat.… — Dwight Schrute Copy Share Image
“One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal… — Schopenhauer Arthur Copy Share Image
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
“No one with an ounce of empathy could fail to be appalled by the distressing footage – taken on fur farms in… — Mimi Bekhechi Copy Share Image
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“As far as the mode of ignorance is concerned, the performer is without knowledge, and therefore all his activities result in present… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne Copy Share Image
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards… — Gregory Colbert 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
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I always loved those little creatures [hummingbird], always feel blessed when they appear nearby. There's a magical quality to them. I finally… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Stone Age humans from wild animals being used for war / battle that continues to this day / but goals have changed,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. — Rita Mae Brown 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
That's the big surprise: Zoo has all the dangerous animal, but Todays the bigges animals are not present, Humans — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable… — John Gay Copy Share Image
“Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG!” — Ladee Basset Copy Share Image
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance… — Betty White Copy Share Image
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“All animals are born with three basic instincts - Hunger to Grow, Fear to Survive and Sex to Multiply.” — Anupam Sinha Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is like human cruelty. There is very little being done to prevent it, and only after it happens does anyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image