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Animal Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
- I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is…
- Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
- Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and…
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under…
- What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity…
- As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to…
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
- The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I…
- The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
- It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough