Animals Quotes

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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed… — George Washington
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. — Christian Morgenstern
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup.… — Ken Venturi
It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world. — Isaac Asimov
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We… — Dalai Lama
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and… — Lucretius
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals. — Albert Schweitzer
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the… — Walt Whitman
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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