Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

This was like being in one of those National Geographic magazines. We were among the natives now.

Have pity on them all, for it is we who are the real monsters.

It’s a good little drop for that young puppy to go. We’ve had animals dropped over the larger fence lines, and animals with broken legs.

Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.

We were restless for ages…After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice....

The only sad part for me about getting a cat from the pound is that I can only choose one. If I could, I’d take home all of them. Actually, my view is why take...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

I think if you’re against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

The power to assimilate crude inorganic matter as it is found in the soil, and convert it into living protoplasm and other organic substances, or to use such substances in performing physiological function, does not...

The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with us has sensitized them to what troubles us. They feel our anxiety and...

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh,...

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

The sound of animals howling for their owners and the sight of drowning pets will haunt me the rest of my life.

You can’t really call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still consuming animals. You just can’t.

You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.

They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God’s beasts. For...

The evacuation of New Orleans doomed these animals to a fate of dehydration and starvation. We rescued people, but we left their pets behind to die. Amazingly, we are finding more alive every day, but...

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

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!