May all that have life be delivered from suffering

I am no theologian, and do not have the answers to these questions, and one of the reasons I enjoy the animals on the farm so much is that they don’t think about their pain,...

Great teachers often come to us in humble packaging. That little dog held the wisdom of a sage in his heart. I learned from him that healing is not about the success or failure of...

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don’t want them to suffer. And...

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

We know, at least, that this decision (ending factory farming) will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve publish health,...

God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.

It’s for Weston. Weston likes animals. I do, too. I like octopuses. I can’t help it.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying...

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles – or perhaps caricatures – of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there’s some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing that gets me is that it’s not possible for the animals...

Whatever talent a person has should be dedicated to the rest of humanity – indeed to all living beings. Therein lies fulfillment. All men are kin. They are of the same likeness, the same build,...

Animals don’t know as much about jealousy as people, but they’re not ignorant of it, either.

You get lots of animals confined in a pretty tight area, so there are concerns about disease transmission.

Animal?Ao pensar nesse termo sentiu um leve embaraço.Era um animal, Luisito? Ou era algo diferente?O que era afinal um animal?No desdém do uso comum, as pessoas esqueciam-se muito facilmente da essência dessa palavra. Anima, o...

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original stock, they would find...

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals’ behinds, I would be a vet.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animals.

Our main focus is to move the long-term animals. We’ve had some of them a year.

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are...

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most,...

People won’t think it will be enforced. It’s already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren’t, so when they act like lions you’re angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don’t...

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life...

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don’t have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise...

Interest and advocacy groups’ response to the purchasing of older animals has been very limited. Now more than ever, we need stewards from the ranching community and other supporters who care about public lands to...

I had to have company — I was made for it, I think — so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways;...

The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating...

They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn’t devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.

I think the biggest thing I remember was there are so many animals in this state named Kirby, and if somebody had a cow or a horse, they named it Herbie. I was always second...

Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we’ve got to do it right. We’ve got to give those animals a decent life and we’ve got to give them a...

Our children think our world will end. It’s a tragic thing. Adults don’t think that. They don’t see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates...

The forest has shrunkAnd fear has expanded,The forests have dwindled,There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning,less beautyand the moon lies bare,deflowered by force andthen abandoned.

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

This is what I find so strange: we are not necessarily kind to animals. We use them, we eat them. But we don’t like them to suffer. Yet humans must. They have to wait for...

One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

[T]he old stories of human relationships with animals can’t be discounted. They are not primitive; they are primal. They reflect insights that came from considerable and elaborate systems of knowledge, intellectual traditions and ways of...

The animals didn’t show up until after we were developing. The pigs came just a month ago. To have this property in our backyards is really disheartening. It’s malicious.

animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and...