#animals

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#life

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#arctic #coastal #complete #ecosystem #home

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here. ↗

— Trisha McCagh

#beauty

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#between #commit #difference #humans #murder

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-rights #kindness-to-animals #vegan #civilization

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#humor #zoology #humor

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#holocaust #veganism #holocaust

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#eating #ethics #food #meat #food

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#children #humor #w-c-fields #humor