Animals Quote by Charles Darwin

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet…

— Sharon Gannon

Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when…

— Michael Pollan

“Animals are not always struggling for existence, but when they do begin, they spend the greater part of their lives eating … Food is…

— William Stolzenburg

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

— Edward Gibbon

“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

— Matthew Scully

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply be yond it. But…

— Adam Smith

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going…

— Shawn Michaels

“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and…

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

“Animal populations that for one reason or another escaped control by predators and parasites have in some cases also escaped their own internal controls…

— Jared Diamond

“The Internet has proven to me that the human herd is every bit as indelicately bovine in its imagination as in its appetites.”

— Whiskey Britches