The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Magicians scorned talking to animals; animal thoughts weren't nearly orderly enough to suit magicians, and were always full of large untidy preoccupations,… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I went to Taronga Park Zoo yesterday and almost mated with an Emu. So a word of advice is not to get… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We don’t give our animal friends enough credit for the lives they lead until we try to imagine ourselves in their position.… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of… — Nick Trout Copy Share Image
I never found striking to be an effective form of fighting. I still clown people and tell them how animals in the… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The other animals." When she didn't reply, he sighed, frustration on his face. "They have - what you say - hop, hop.… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals. — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.” — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When you are in the company of people who look down upon themselves as though they were animals, you too become like… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also… — Karen Shanor Copy Share Image
If we all were animals, everyone would want to be a brave bear, or a wise owl. Instead of being a powerful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
“Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway,” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I was to have sex with one animal it would be a horse. That is a beautiful animal. And when you… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when men look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I saw white figures. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
