The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there.… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart, and… — James W. Goll Copy Share Image
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I drew these natural sponges for a while and gave them googly eyes, and it didn't come together until I drew a… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement,… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Oxytocin is an ancient neurotransmitter chemical. Animal lineages much older than the mammals—amphibians, reptiles, worms, even the egg-dumping fish—all sport some version… — Hannah Holmes Copy Share Image
... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
It does seem like, in the world today, we've moved further and further away from wildlife. There's that sense of whatever you're… — Terri Irwin Copy Share Image
“To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how… — Diane Langberg 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
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
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
“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
“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals… — Immanuel Kant 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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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
“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
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
Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Alright, but when you get back, Westchester. It’s not every night you get to hunt with a beautiful woman,' he said. 'Mmm,… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Sometimes animals could not be reintroduced into the wild because they’d lost their ability to hunt, had come to rely on humans… — Annie Hartnett Copy Share Image
“The free animal has its dying always behind it and God in front of it, and its way is the eternal way,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Ursula Le Guin Copy Share Image
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