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.

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.

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...

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...

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

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade – whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

Somewhere between poetry and science, somewhere between heaven and earth, clairaudience is born. Clairaudience is the sweetest mystery any human being could ever experience. Fortunately, it is the most contagious, too. Most, if not all,...

We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

If they want to put down in some part of the desert surrounded by lions, jackals and other dangerous animals, then we will do it.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what tends to come next. They have no...

I’ll never go hungry, because I’m a pet owner and a meat eater. I used to own broccoli, but taking it for a walk in the park didn’t work out so well.

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not...

For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is...

Every great day has a story and a song!

A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.

They’ve placed their own safety on the line to get in there and care for these animals. … We’re delighted that we can help them out in some tiny little way.

Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

Walter had never liked cats. They’d seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize...

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our...

…I would not engage the wombatIn any form of mortal combat.

There are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet–it’s the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and...

Daisy didn’t just change our lives, she changed our destiny.

I love very much to draw animals.

Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men,you will know what that means.

Wild creatures’ eyes, the colonel said,Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they are not aware of meAnd oh I find and oh I blessA comfort in this emptinessThey only see...

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It’s a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What...

The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

In our day, there are stresses and fractures of the human-animal bond, and some forces at work would sever it once and for all. They pull us in the wrong direction and away from the...

Yes, but humans are more important than animals,’ said Brutha.’This is a point of view often expressed by humans,’ said Om.

There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression… We have yet to become fluent in the...

Nothing is perfect,” sighed the fox. “My life is very monotonous. I run after the chickens; the men run after me. All the chickens are the same; all the men are the same. Consequently, I...

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

Wer kann es sagen, wer nur ahnen, wie weit das Geistesvermögen der Tiere geht!

The health departments should work synchronously with the agricultural departments once they learn about the outbreak of an epidemic among animals,

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be...

Let your autobiography contain these words; “I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently”. Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees.

better” or as morally acceptable. This is not a condemnation of vegetarians who are not vegans; it is, however, a plea to those people to recognize their actions do not conform with a moral principle...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge...

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind...

If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.