Humans and animals Quote by Annie Proulx

“For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them…

— Thomas Ligotti

“...a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to extract all…

— Siri Hustvedt

“If you didn't divide it up, carve things into categories, it was all one in the same anyway - waves and oceans, dawns and…

— Peter Bunzl

“There was no wire across in those days, no big house on the other side; nothing but the open yap of the planet, yawning…

— Tom Robbins

“The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.”

— Zephyr A. McIntyre

“I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds,…

— E.L. Doctorow

“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of…

— Don DeLillo

“The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable…

— Heather James

“History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.”

— Sebastian Barry

“that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is…

— Herman Melville

“Was the life force something more than words, a tangible, mind-controlling potency? Was nature somehow, in him, maintaining its spark against its own encroachments?”

— Richard Matheson