Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be…

— Diane Ackerman

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

— Saint Augustine

“We’re beings toward death, we’re featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of…

— Cornel West

“The body is transmuted into other forms, worms batten on it, it helps to feed the grass, and some animal consumes the grass. But…

— E.F. Benson

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which…

— Max Heindel

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is…

— John Ruskin

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

— Russell Simmons

The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our…

— Pythagoras

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

— Hugh Howey

“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than others do.…

— Mohammad Qutub

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery,…

— Cyril Connolly

“Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans…

— John Gray