Quotes about animal
animal loner lovers
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. Paul Theroux
animal people tough-times
To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.
animal hands records
Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually. Patrick Stump
animal green-world dependent
This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Patrick Geddes
animal thinking green-world
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
animal comforting companionship
There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place. Patrick Carman
animal ideas design
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality John Searle
animal two comedian
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. John Podhoretz
animal joy evolution
Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures. Martin Luther
animal evolution footprint
Animals are footprints of God.
animal thoughtful talking
A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place. Nick Kroll
animal choices tragedy
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice Mortimer Adler
animal meat butchers
I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals. Paul O'Grady
animal enjoyable
I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.
animal needs spirit
Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits. Matthew Fox
animal effort wilderness
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
animal important funny-simpsons
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. Matt Groening
animal earth fertility
Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. Masanobu Fukuoka
animal ugly body
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body. Martha Graham
animal wind imagination
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. Mark Helprin
animal vegetables fda
FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that the vegetables themselves have anything wrong with them; it's that they're contaminated with animal manure. One of the rationales for a single food safety agency is that you can't separate animals from vegetables. Marion Nestle
animal use instinct
We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. Marion Cotillard
animal people protect
Animals don't have anyone to protect them. If we don't stand up, the people who are harming animals will never get stopped. Paul Rodriguez
animal government world-suffering
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. Paul Harvey
animal thinking rights
I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do. Neko Case
animal people empathy
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
animal support-you people
If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don`t actually natively politically support you. You are not a political animal that exists in nature. Rachel Maddow
animal individuality trying
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not? Rabih Alameddine
animal plant harm
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral. Nhat Hanh
animal language theory
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. Noam Chomsky
animal house i-love-my-family
I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Joey King
animal people greedy
People are just greedy animals, after all. Joe Meno
animal turns humans
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down. Jodi Picoult