I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.
Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.
Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.
I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.
Man is a gaming animal.
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.
If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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