"What struck me whenever I visited a farm……" — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
"What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance."
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14 Quotes by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the…
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Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.
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Dogs never lie about love.
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Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it,…
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The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be…
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Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."
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Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she…
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Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd…
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Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have,…
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Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
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We might miss the sign or we may be unable to read the expression, but it is almost a contradiction…
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Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our…
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