I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate,” he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate’s tremendous purrs. “I saved his life, and when you’ve saved a creature’s life you’re bound to...

It is my understanding from an intuitive relationship with animals that it is complete folly to try to figure out what is right or wrong for humans by observing what other animals are doing. Observe...

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me...

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues...

There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over...

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood.Dracula was dead. Rex was dying or dead.Breakfast was dying. And I was caring about it all. Meanwhile, that blasted Gunnar did nothing...

Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had voluntarily sworn to have no truck with vampires, and here, attached to his...

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask...

Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ‘ Thoreau once remarked of animals, ‘made to carry some portion of our thoughts.’ Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten...

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga / stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

They took the animals (we had found) and moved them to a shelter two hours north of where we were.

I love animals. I’m going to be an animal doctor.

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves violence...

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I’d love to visit a zoo stocked with stuffed animals. Where would all the real animals be? Well, the real animals would be where they always are: in Congress.

Humans are the most inhumane of all creatures.

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to...

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

Turns out, I couldn’t catch them – or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I’m glad those people don’t love me.

On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. “Look at all them stink bugs,” Hazel remarked,...

I can give or take elephants; I never can find the cheetah-but the zebras captivate me. They’d be one of the few things that would fit if we were lucky enough to live in a...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.

…there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

I couldn’t date someone who didn’t like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn’t like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas....

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

It’s high-protein vegetation that animals crave after a long winter. You’ll see deer and antelope flock into that new green grass.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.

Kaugnay nito, tao lang yata ang may insecurities at ayaw nilang makitang may mas mahusay sa kanila. Yung mga hayop, kapag may hindi mapagkasunduan, wala nang bulung-bulungan o parinigan, upakan at banatan na agad.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land’s every contour–when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is...

I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever the motherfuck it was and he was trying to get apes...