If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.
I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.
MAMMALIA, n. pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.
Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.
A lot of people approach their barn or horse like they are going to war, because it's been going badly. So you pick up the next day in a defensive mode instead of cleaning the slate and starting fresh. Animals live so much in the moment, so if you're bringing baggage from yesterday you're already at a loss. We do that with people too.
My dream of an apocalypse that was the Antichrist Superstar has unfolded. I could see that they only looked and acted like humans, but they had lost their souls, they were Mechanical Animals
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.
Animals interest me more than anything else.
Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
I have a history of saving animals. I started years ago with a cow.
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice: Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.
I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I'm feeling just a little "extra important. "