The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a ‘furniture...

Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of...

Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty...

If this lady is guilty of anything, it’s loving these animals too much. She has them in her house. She has more than most people have in her house. But that is not cruelty. It...

humanely” we treat them.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

We should all care about this because animals are dying in the streets.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

I don’t eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

Animals are precious gifts offering unconditional love.

Today, it isn’t unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.

The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There...

It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

the mangrove killfish, lives in South American and southern US coastal swamps that can either dry up or become so toxic that the fish has to find refuge in the mud or by flipping and...

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence…and many of their tragedies are a consequence of so-called human brilliance.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

We also study animals at the extremes of performance, creatures that are exceptionally good at one particular thing.

Friendship fills your life with the essence of joy and mutual understanding. And some of the best friends in life have more than two legs.

Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name...

Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.

New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it’s animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place...

Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach–but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual...

I hated cats. I was a dog lover,” Des says with a shrug. “What’s the point of a cat? They’re not affectionate. But that’s because it’s not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn’t jump...

People would rather believe than know.

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and...

I waited for him to come out. He didn’t. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself...

happy” animal exploitation.

Man is the cruelest animal.

People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace.

The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor...

The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means ‘soul,’ is also the root of the word ‘animal.’) Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children,...

It’s just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no...

If a man aspires to a righteous life, his first act of abstinence if from injury to animals.

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons,...

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to...

I’m not sure. I’ve never had to fight a bear before.

The only good cage is an empty cage.

I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Walk in kindness toward the Earth and every living being. Without kindness and compassion for all of Mother Nature’s creatures, there can be no true joy; no internal peace, no happiness. Happiness flows from caring...

Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don’t have to live so long

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year...

Never break a promise to an animal. They’re like babies—they won’t understand.