Ancestor Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic…

— Ashley Purdy

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

— Paul Theroux

A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it…

— Peter S. Beagle

“The Neanderthals lived in Europe for more than a hundred thousand years and during that period they had no more impact on their surroundings…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But…

— Jock Sturges

Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

— Wayne Pacelle

“Field biologists studying large and charismatic animals wanted to know if their own species had genetic problems. I listened carefully to stories of koalas…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live…

— Gary Yourofsky

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat…

— Michael Pollan

“The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the past and…

— Susan Orlean

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own…

— Gary L. Francione