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.

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.

With networking, some people build bridges, some people burn bridges, and some people, like myself, use a boat to cross the river that divides us from one another. Well, with all the animals I associate...

humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to...

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The truth is that she was always much more forgiving of animals than people…Her sympathy for the underdog–or the underwasp, underrat, undercat, undersnail, underbird, underspider, undermouse, undergecko, undercentipede–was limitless. In the depths of a gloomy...

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I’ve discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to...

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder...

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves’ eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world’s terrors.

There’s something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Ad-37 is the third human adenovirus to increase adiposity in animals, but not all adenoviruses produce obesity.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition;They do not...

I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and...

I stepped to the tank’s edge, leaned in, and concentrated on keeping my eyes open. Which fish would be the shooter? The fish were all facing me, but one in particular seemed to be staring...

The clock is really ticking. It’s tearing us up knowing that so many animals are in need and [we] can’t get to every one on our own.

Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, ‘nothing’ is the far more likely outcome. I ask these...

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...

These animals have been our heritage for centuries. If they once existed in the west and then became extinct, well, we are not ready to let go of our own.

My favorite animal is steak.

A couple of months become a couple thousand dollars. It kills us to have to put these animals to sleep, but not many people give them a chance.

humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

I once saw two endangered species about to have sex, but I had to put a stop to it because I suspected one of them of being a prostitute.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people”.