Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.
We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.
Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism because a vegan's ecological footprint is light, but once they are not invested in eating animals, they are more likely to be willing to learn the details of what happens to them. That learning will encourage compassionate people to stick with a plant-based diet.
Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Humans call animals 'dumb'. . . after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient. . . if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfishcallous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.
