The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Let us remember with humility the loneliness of being man in a universe we do not understand and the vulnerability of the… — Gerald Carson Copy Share Image
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
