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Animal Quotes by John Ruskin
- Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
- Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
- He who is not actively kind is cruel!
- There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and…
- The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,…
- Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal
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