An animal has been made by God just as you have been. He is therefore a fellowcreature. He has not the power… — Lord Baden Powell Copy Share Image
Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
“They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
“Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not very lovely, but they… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
“If we want to understand the life of any animal, we need to know what things are meaningful to it. The first… — Alexandra Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Our hunting fathers told the story Of the sadness of the creatures, Pitied the limits and the lack Set in their finished… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've been shooting with this gentle beast of an elephant for my film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' During the shoot, I got to… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
“How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, in a faraway land, four blind wise men were asked to describe the true nature of an elephant.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like to be dismissive of whales speaking possibilities. There is a pretty New Age-y, poorly thought set of ideas about… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Animals have an amazing capacity for love and they have limited vocabularies. They don’t know the meaning of words like betrayal, control… — Octavia Wildwood Copy Share Image
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
“When a creature begins to emerge from it's chrysails there is a point at which it is neither one thing nor the… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
“I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go… — Dan Mathews Copy Share Image
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical… — Francis Lawrence Copy Share Image
Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated with animals and I wanted to go to the zoo all the time. When I got older and… — Marcus Hudson Copy Share Image
My culture, Euro-American culture, did so many horrible things to the animal and treated it with such disrespect and such wanton greed.… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“They have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely parts of a whole, first of all humanity,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
