Quotes about animal
animal safety enemy
A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety. William Hazlitt
animal mind essentials
Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers. Wendell Berry
animal worry forever
Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. Wendell Phillips
animal bravery accountability
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
animal differences limits
When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference between humans and animals: Whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far more gross and capacious than physical ones. Only humans squander and hoard, murder and pillage because of notions.
animal evil hierarchy
The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.
animal two water
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.
animal water tree
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.
animal fire-burning flames
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame, and re-inventing the poetry of diversity is perhaps the most importent challenge of our times. Wade Davis
animal self leader
Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody. Virginia Woolf
animal white bird
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. William Blake
animal heaven humanity
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
animal people allergic
Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people. Wentworth Miller
animal protection animal-cruelty
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. Wayne Pacelle
animal abuse
Animal abuse is still widespread and we have so much work ahead.
animal film
There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.
animal needs left-alone
Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.
animal hunting rights
The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.
animal different generations
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
animal long training
At The Humane Society of the United States, we know how difficult it is to prevent cruelty to animals in movies because so many of the animal welfare problems occur behind the scenes in training, housing, and transportation, long before the animals get on the set.
animal extinction problem
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.
animal people risk
The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.
animal care sentimental
Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.
animal vegetables play
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds. Wallace Shawn
animal savages human-nature
When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of. Samuel Richardson
animal murder
We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them. Samuel Fuller
animal world stories
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. Salman Rushdie
animal storytelling
We are the storytelling animal.
animal men blood
We have seen that blood united to blood in the case of but remotely connected species of animals, kills; blood united to blood in the case of more closely allied species of animals does not kill. The physical organism of man survives when strange blood comes in contact with strange blood, ... but clairvoyant power perishes under the influence of this mixing of blood, or exogamy. Rudolf Steiner
animal rooms bears
I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room. Wanda Jackson
animal bombarded-by may
We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can. Wangari Maathai
animal thinking problem
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human. Jostein Gaarder
animal hatred humanity
Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination. Konrad Lorenz