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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing…
— George Wald
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets…
— Anton Chekhov
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
— Peter Singer
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In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today…
— Pope John Paul II
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I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff.…
— Sam Shepard
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
— Camille Pissarro
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Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing…
— Juhani Pallasmaa
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I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
— Harold S. Kushner
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By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.
— Mencius
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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in…
— Charles Dickens
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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets…
— Anton Chekhov
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