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.

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...

We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of...

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress.

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or...

Cat rescue is like a virus,” says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. “And once you’re infected, it’s incurable.

I would characterize myself as a health and safety lover. My love for animals is because if you don’t properly care for and manage the pet population, you can have some serious health consequences for...

He heard what he said were footsteps (inside). It was clearly not animals.

We have a lot of events coming up, such as Tennessee Week for the Animals in October. We work closely with the Maryville Animal Shelter, which has been just great.

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them… The animals...

If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that’s morally justifiable, in our opinion.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what...

I ask Laurie if it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie.

We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn’t hurt more or less if God caused it or could...

Because we tend to equate intelligence with language–particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions–it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we’re on auto-pilot and don’t even realize we’re following a course of action that we haven’t consciously...

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog’s heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.

They felt everything in nature was alive, and animals, trees, and plants were all brother s and sisters.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.

Out there is South Dakota,” Kitch had said, “Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

How much does an elephant weigh?

God loves and cares for creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated by humans. Creation exists, not for the glory of humanity, but for the glory of God. God has...

Hi! handsome hunting manFire your little gun.Bang! Now the animalis dead and dumb and done.Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

Faced with an ecological crisis whose roots lie in this disengagement, in the separation of human agency and social responsibility from the sphere of our direct involvement with the non-human environment, it surely behoves us...

But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I’d signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn’t be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.

Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family.

Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.

Discipline isn’t about showing a dog who’s boss; it’s about takingresponsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

When a man is at peace he is a man, when angry he is an animal.

Cats are there to be indulged. That’s their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will...

I am not over fond of animals.

Leave it man. Squirrel’s botherin nae cunt likesay! Ah hate it the wey Mark’s intae hurtin animals… it’s wrong man. Ye cannae love yirsel if ye want tae hurt things like that… ah mean… what...

woof” in cat.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.

Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have...

Why was it, she asked herself, that “animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

We were treated like animals.

I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.

How monotonous our speaking becomes when we speak only to ourselves! And how insulting to the other beings – to foraging black bears and twisted old cypresses – that no longer sense us talking to...

We see horrible things when animals are tied up. They’re left out in the sun with no food or water, and they are blistered and overheated.

Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?’No,’ I said.People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it’s not enough just to be a dog...

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?