“a creature cloistered now by deliberate choice and still in the throes of enforced apprenticeship to, rather than voluntary or even acquiescent… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“While many animals learn from members of their own species, dogs are one of the few that can learn from other species.” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Radioactive waste in Coldwater Creek has caused a level of devastation that would be unfathomable if it weren't our reality. Our communities… — Cori Bush 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
They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of… — Theo Jansen Copy Share Image
“Wherever there are wild animals in the world, there is always an opportunity for caring, compassion and kindness.” — Paul Oxton Copy Share Image
People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“But how can they just decide that we're animals? They don't even know us," I said. "We know us," said Mother. "They're… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“All animals solve the same age-old problems relating to food, partnerships, sex, shelter, home, and caring for their young.” — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Hey, moose!” I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we’ll both die with… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
The circus was born with animals, horses at the start. This is part of our cultural heritage. It's a whole, with clowns… — Princess Stephanie of Monaco Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“And no person, I was convinced, ever loved as deeply as an animal did for the person who cared for them.” — Jessica Gadziala Copy Share Image
As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in… — William T. Hornaday Copy Share Image
“I like that name, that game too, though utterly valueless, the animal in us just sufficiently domesticated, our venomous American aggressiveness confined… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Animals are always goddesses and gods, like the god Anubis. He's the one who's accompanying the souls to the next life, and… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
