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.

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.

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

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,

…animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

The elk that you glimpse in the summer, those at the forest edge, are survivors of winter, only the strongest. You see one just before dusk that summer, standing at the perimeter of the meadow...

Most people don’t realize it, because they’re invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth’s biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

The added factors of shooting animals with a camera, rather than a gun, are compassion and respect for life.

I love things made out of animals. It’s just so funny to think of someone saying, “I need a letter opener. I guess I’ll have to kill a deer.