I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with animals, … I’ve just liked that for a long time.

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a...

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways–when you began writing me dizzy letters about Alexander, I didn’t ask if you were in love with him, I asked what his favorite animal...

Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully...

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!

We have major concerns about stocking animals for hunting. This practice should be banned.

The character of a person is often carried in the mannerisms of his pet.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes...

If you are in doubt about what’s balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

We vocalize continually in a way that helps babies begin to learn language by the end of the first year. I wanted to find out why we are the only animals that talk, and this...

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at the moment. Don’t look so surprised my dear, it’s in the nature of...

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but...

…only someone who’d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them….

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines,...

The same way he treats animals and other vulnerable individuals is the same way he’ll relate to your feminine side.

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be...

And so what do dogs want? They want what they want when they want it. Just like us.

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and...

Taken together, the narratives of how the animals ended up at Lowry Park revealed as much about Homo sapiens as they revealed about the animals themselves. The precise details—how and where each was born, how...

People were staying because they wouldn’t leave their animals.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And...

Ce n’était qu’un renard semblable à cent mille autres. Mais j’en ai fait mon ami, et il est maintenant unique au monde.

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however,...

There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming,...

She’d abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

I don’t think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she’s more like...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is...

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.

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...