#animal

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #animal




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


Gregory Maguire


#man #peace #people #life

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.


Miguel de Unamuno


#human #life

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.


Temple Grandin


#emotions #humans #life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.


Francesca Lia Block


#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.


Katherine Applegate


#humanity #life

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.


Marc Bekoff


#dictator #evil #ignorance #specieism #vegan

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!


Julie Murphy


#arachnids #children-s-books #nature #spider #nature

The cost to reconnect animals to live in natural settings without human support is a debt that many animals in transition must honor with their lives.


Young Tim


#farm-life #farming #nature

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.


Yasmine Galenorn


#consciousness #human-nature #interconnection #nature

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?


Jonathan Safran Foer


#cruelty #violence