Animals Quote by Susan Orlean

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

“Art is what separates us from the animals.”

— Iimani David

“The pictures were designed to soothe without arousing interest – engravings of cows in ponds, deer in streams, dogs in lakes. Wet animals seem…

— John Steinbeck

“Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more…

— Larry Herzberg

“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for…

— Diane Ackerman

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

— Alison Goldfrapp

“isn't there some philosophy about how it's the arts that separate humans from animals? Really? I thought it was not eating our young.”

— Claire Zorn

“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

“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps…

— Halldór Laxness

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

— Victor Hugo

“The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed by most…

— Ian Douglas-Hamilton