“The cat-and-mouse scenery is not only about animals, but about our human condition. How do we live, how we are played, and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I was thinking about what would it be, what would the characters be like, and it just suddenly dawned on me that,… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“For anyone who has never experienced or set any store by being close to an animal, it is perhaps difficult to understand… — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
“Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“So we sit, inside our separate skins, and every now and then lean forward to gaze hard at another person and read… — Deborah Noyes Copy Share Image
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“animals are often fed mechanically, so their only human contact comes, and this is only in the case of breeder dogs, in… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Many people who live with animals have noticed that their cat or dog becomes solicitous of them when they are feeling unwell.… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“To me, animals have all the traits indicative of soul. For soul is not something we can see or measure...No one can… — Gary Kowalski Copy Share Image
Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
A wild appreciation of men and women . . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“Tigers, indeed all animals, do not favour violence as a means of settling scores. When animals fight, it is with the intent… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“The reason that animals grazing or birds chirping is so relaxing is because it signals to our subconscious brain systems that everything… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Little animal that I am, sucking my flanks in and out with fear, I stand here, palpitating, trembling. But I will not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists:… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
