To be thankful for just being alive…To survive means to win… That only applies to animals, but I’m a human being!

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we...

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Be nice to the environment. Be nice to animals. Be nice to people. If you do that, you will leave a mark on the world.

Everyone is taught that angels have wings – the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

You can’t be sad when Daisy is around, she won’t let you.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Avian flu or H5N1 is still primarily a disease among animals, … Human deaths have been almost exclusively among humans who came into contact with infected birds. The virus has not shown itself to be...

Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

Big Brown MooseI’m a big brown moose,I’m a rascally moose,I’m a moose with a tough, shaggy hide;and I kick and I prancein a long-legged dancewith my moose-mama close by my side.I shrug off the coldand...

…a world where a sparrow’s fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat’s eye, such is the true measure of time.

People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

‘I can get mad all I want, but they don’t mean it. They love me. Sometimes, some creatures, when they get cornered, they forget who loves them and think everybody’s the enemy. You don’t just...

Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.

One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind...

Animals store their fears and at times OUR fears in the body and manifest physical illnesses like we do. Like us, these fears may have occurred in infancy and are still carried in the adult...

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

A couple of months become a couple thousand dollars. It kills us to have to put these animals to sleep, but not many people give them a chance.

humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

I once saw two endangered species about to have sex, but I had to put a stop to it because I suspected one of them of being a prostitute.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people”.

I take it hard when an animal in my care suffers or dies. I take it even harder when the animal’s suffering is the result of human exploitation or carelessness.

We love dogs and eat cows not because dogs and cows are fundamentally different–cows, like dogs, have feelings, preferences, and consciousness–but because our perception of them is different.

He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.

People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their...

I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching...

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by...

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately,...

An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits… they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs … He who in studying all the different species of...

Oh. How very clever.”The comparison had left her both impressed and flattered.

How do they find out with the experiments?”…one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one...

You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population – not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can’t save...

I could hear an old man in the stall next to ours sucking a hustler’s cock; I thought of animals gathering at a salt lick during the night near a cave: carnivore rubbing shoulders with...

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people...

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what’s missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back...

I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine

He was just seeing animals out there not getting care because pet owners had to make their decisions with their pocketbooks and not their hearts.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but… why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

As a kid, I loved being surrounded by mountains, creeks and animals, and volunteering with my mom on initiatives to help protect the environment. Being part of this contest is one important way I can...

I asked the airline staff what I was going to do with all the animals as I didn’t have any food for them. They were very unhelpful.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a most practical importance to us little mortals. In one form, as the mere semi-conscious Sex-love,...

We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to animals being wounded and suffering.

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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

The beauty in the genome is of course that it’s so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data…which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire...

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals...

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.