Nature Quote by Wayne Pacelle

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift…

— Philip K. Dick

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what…

— Delia Sherman

“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject such standards,…

— Matthew Scully

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

— Andy Dunn

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

— Dan Mathews

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

— Lily Tomlin

“Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct”

— Dean Cavanagh

It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted…

— Nathaniel Branden

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of…

— Lewis Thomas

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

— Yann Martel

“Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful emotions: sorrow…

— Melanie Joy

“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we…

— Joseph Goldstein