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

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...

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...

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle’s or the squirrel’s or the sparrow’s. All are held...

HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITIONTO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLEOR EVEN ANIMALS?OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS ISSMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH,EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

Spiders don’t chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey’s insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.

The carnistic schema, which twists information so that nonsense seems to make perfect sense, also explains why we fail to see the absurdities of the system. Consider, for instance, advertising campaigns in which a pig...

Most people would say they love animals, but the reality is, if your using animals for food, clothing, or entertainment, you’re only considering the lives of certain animals, typically those of cats and dogs.

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it...

The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I’ve never completely overcome.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

And Mrs. Treaclebunny has promised to speak English from now on as well. In fact, she said when she goes to England, that’s all she speaks anyway because the animals speak English there. She says...

They can detect the variations in the amount of daylight each day. It is a sensory response that many animals use.

I quit eating meat in 1976, the same year I turned fifteen, came out, and went to my first gay rights rally (not in that order). When I say that I ‘came out,’ I mean...

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding...

Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone...

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each...

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who...

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.’ ‘That’s why animals are so soft and huggy.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Often, when a human suffers through major emotional traumas, a lack of well being follows if their feelings about the trauma are not completely expressed. When the trauma is severe and the suffering is continuous,...

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell...

A population like this couldn’t stand too many years with only a couple of animals born into it.

We don’t seize animals. We only document what happened.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

If it weren’t for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn’t bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It’s something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the...

Bolivia recently did what every country should do – banned the use of animals in circuses.

What finally turned me back toward the older traditions of my own [Chickasaw] and other Native peoples was the inhumanity of the Western world, the places–both inside and out–where the culture’s knowledge and language don’t...

It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can...

When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals’ emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest...

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home...

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in...

We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That’s why we don’t eat animals.

Terror”There is something About youThat seems so youngSo trustingThis is the part of you that I most love And the part of you that I am most frightened to hurt Do you think the German...

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people’s behavior. It...

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body.

Better to honor the pinch of fear than regret the punch of fang.

We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we...

I am a fosterer of animals.

Sometimes i think you were a dolphin in a previous life,