“Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When I say "dogs", I'm talking about dogs, which are large, bounding, salivating animals, usually with bad breath. I am not talking… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Wherever you are, with whatever means you have, if you reclaim a piece of land for nature, your world will grow kinder,… — Boyd Varty Copy Share Image
Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What came to mind was a dinosaur. A tiny velociraptor, no bigger than her thumb. Relatively small, bur surprisingly ferocious. When the… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
If animal abusers aren't going to stop perpetrating these types of atrocities, they ought to be stopped using whatever means necessary. What… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“On the outside, the man of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside he is dirtier than… — Arnold Ehret Copy Share Image
Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide.… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass.… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
My focus personally has been to be a conservationist, which is to save species, protect wild lands, sometimes bring animals into assurance… — Eric Goode Copy Share Image
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
“Animals are not genderless objects. “He” and “she” are vast improvements over “it.” “Who” is more fitting than “that” or “which.” (So,… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Fish are unable, of course, to speak for themselves about how we treat them. They have ways of communicating with each other… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“...one of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided by the… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
“When two creatures meet, the one that is able to intimidate its opponent is recognized as socially superior, so that a social… — Hediger Copy Share Image
“You can train any animal into any behavior on cue if it’s a natural behavior to begin with. Racism, sexism, speciesism—all natural… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Even dying, eaten alive...Threadgill still felt an uncanny true sorrow for the thing killing him. The beast was just so...ugly. Just so… — Charles McNair Copy Share Image
My brother acquired his first gun when he was very young, from a recently-fled drug dealer's residence. Now, he lived in a… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex.… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“Some flies and gnats were sitting on my paper and this disturbed me; I breathed on them to make them go, then… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun… — Benjamin Hoff 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
When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them…Even today one raises horses… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
“Though the fox kills the chicken, and the bigger animals live on the little animals, what appears to be cruelty is a… — J KRISHNAMURTI Copy Share Image
