I love animals. I love being around them.
Nature is none other than God in things. . . Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things. . . Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.
I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me.
Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a truffle hound. That's what Jacob Viner, the great economist called it: the truffle hound - an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn't much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments.
Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.
I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
I started reading and learned that we don't need any of it - meat, dairy products. We get everything we need without those things - except maybe B12, but there's this whole controversy that maybe we're only getting B12 because the animals are being fed B12 supplements.
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm. . . I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.