Affair Quote by Mary Hunter Austin

“We don’t give our animal friends enough credit for the lives they lead until we try to imagine ourselves in their position. Only then…

— Kyle Rohrig

. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot…

— Nathaniel Altman

“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they follow, the…

— Robert Macfarlane

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild…

— Emma Marris

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

— Sara Gruen

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

— Ammianus Marcellinus

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever…

— John Dingell

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling,…

— Michel de Montaigne

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

— John Burnside

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes,…

— S. Parkes Cadman