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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
I grew up watching 'Scooby-Doo' and was an avid fan of Daphne. She was my favorite, and I named my first stuffed animal after her.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
God requires that we assist the animals, when they need our help. Each being (human or creature) has the same right of protection.
There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.
We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.
How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.