Famous Quotes & Sayings

These animals are highly skilled predators, ... I've recently seen a 6-foot gator in a tributary in West Orange near Adams Bayou.

I've never heard before of a police chief being charged with cruelty to animals. It could have happened somewhere, but I've not heard of it. I think it's a victory in that the laws that have been enacted to protect animals are being enforced, regardless of whether that person is chief of police or average Joe.

Wayne Pacelle

We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in by state and federal authorities for the first several days. We've received 2,000 e-mails and phone calls from people who evacuated from New Orleans, who left animals in their homes and are pleading with us to rescue them. That's just in New Orleans. It doesn't count surrounding areas.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

We try a special exhibit every year. We have fish here, but we have a lot of other animals, too. We talked about what would be interesting, and lizards came up.

I've been watching for a long time the difference that horses make in able-bodied people's lives. I've watched my animals bring these people happiness.

Alex Rodriguez

We were like desperate animals trying to survive, and animals are most dangerous when they are in a snare.

Dick Miller

We will sort and cull those animals we expect to sell at the auction.

What's happening in New Orleans, is there's still animals roaming the streets without homes, without food, without shelter.

We try to create an intimate experience for our guests and to encourage them to care about exotic animals and places and to develop a conservation ethic; that's really what we're here to do. Seeing elephants is a big part of that.

We don't want them stressed out even more by not being able to have their animals with them.

Drew Mitchell

We are trying to get people to relate the pressure they put on animals with the pressure they put on people in the workplace,

We're using these animals as ocean sensors. We're also learning how they use the ocean - where they go and what they do.

Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other. That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.

The investigation today is focusing on tracing the other 73 animals that presumably came into the United States in the same shipment with this positive cow,

The CDC has recommended that hunters shooting game birds use gloves to pick up the animals.

I'm glad that we have the ESA, because I think that's been good for the big-horned sheep and the grizzly bear, and just bringing all of us to an understanding and a desire to live with animals around us rather than slaughtering them all,

I'm much more concerned about visitors. The animals are seeking cool places and are inactive. The visitors are out here walking around in this heat. So we really are more concerned about them and want them to be very careful about taking time to cool off.

I like the crafts, and they have animals,

Susan Minot

David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.

Jared Diamond

Domestic animals revolutionized land transport. They also revolutionized agriculture, by letting one farmer plough and manure much more land than the farmer could till or manure by the farmer's own efforts.

Domestic animals are totally dependent upon our grace as humans to provide for their welfare. Everyone should be involved with animal welfare.

Jessica Alba

not smart animals, which is why people do get bit once in a while. I was wearing a wet suit that was silver. So when I move around, it believed my head was a fish. So this shark with his mouth open was coming towards my head. I pushed it away because I freaked out. And the director later told me that that was happening to my double all day. He was like, 'I wasn't sure if it was going to happen to you.' I'm like, 'Thanks for the heads up!'

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others

Bill Foster

The Audubon Nature Institute staff in New Orleans are not only colleagues, but they are also our friends, and we all share a passion for the animals in our care, ... The AZA community is committed to helping our colleagues in New Orleans as they move beyond this tragedy and begin to rebuild their homes, their lives and the wonderful facilities of the Audubon Nature Institute.

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

There was also a concern if we found any dead animals in the house. But the biggest thing, as far as safety, was the mold. We all bought respirator masks before we went down there and we made sure we had those on.

This is a very exciting result. It's the first demonstration that animals can survive a reentry event similar to what would be experienced inside a meteorite. It shows directly that even complex small creatures originating on one planet could survive landing on another without the protection of a spacecraft.

Once a landscape is industrialized, its wild character is lost for good. You can't recreate untouched tundra, mountain meadows, crystal clear streams, and animals that have never encountered toxic waste.

Once people realized they could tag and they could follow organisms it just became a standard method. And once anything becomes standard, people sort of forget that it is an invasive treatment and it might have implications on the animals being tagged.

Not only because of the animals welfare but certainly also the public welfare. Given the link between animal fighting and interpersonal crime.

Bruce Friedrich

It's not a health food. It's not something anybody needs to eat. These animals are pulled out of the environment, transported, denied sustenance, kept frustrated with their claws locked, and boiled alive. These animals are put through felony-level cruelty, just to give some diner a moment of gastronomic pleasure.

It's really a sign of hope and rebuilding. It was a big rallying point for our staff, they've gone through so much, losing animals they worked with for 20-plus years.