We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense… — Ian Dunbar Copy Share Image
'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“the most ethical option is not to stop hunting animals, but to re-enter the food chain and replace the predators that we… — John Durant Copy Share Image
We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
Embryology reveals surprising similarities between early embryos of seemingly quite different animals. And it also shows that some structures that may look… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
“But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What creature goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noonday, on three in the evening? Man. In childhood he… — Oedipus Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck… — Marv Levy Copy Share Image
With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs.… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
“We begin our naming. The names drop into greens that tighten. Greens that deepen. The wind has begun its relentless thinking. Now… — Carol Berg Copy Share Image
“Just so you know,’ I explained, remembering my own earlier arrogance, ‘if you’ve ever owned a cat and therefore think you know… — Peter Allison Copy Share Image
“Favorite Quotations. I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue. The worth of a book is measured by what… — Pat Frayne Copy Share Image
PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
“Considered interrupting them to note that the entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement—from animal instinct toward rational… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Animals are a huge part of my life, so yes, if you are going to be a part of my life, you… — Beth Ostrosky Stern Copy Share Image
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no reason other than because… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Alright, but when you get back, Westchester. It’s not every night you get to hunt with a beautiful woman,' he said. 'Mmm,… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“It was in America that horses first roamed. A million years before the birth of man, they grazed the vast plains of… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
“The free animal has its dying always behind it and God in front of it, and its way is the eternal way,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Ursula Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes animals could not be reintroduced into the wild because they’d lost their ability to hunt, had come to rely on humans… — Annie Hartnett Copy Share Image
When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image