Animals In Nature Quotes

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

Dog, Heart, Animal

"True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

E. O. Wilson

Nature, Animal, Pet

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Aristotle

Life, Nature, Philosophical

"Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,

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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Chief Seattle

Blood, Web Of Life, Animal Rights

Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Henry David Thoreau

Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

Charles Darwin

Love, Life, Nature

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

Religious, Peace, Men

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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

Meaningful, Nature, Men

"The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas A. Edison

Life, Peace, Honesty

"Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

Nature, Fighting, Government

"Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

John Muir

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

Maimonides

Nature, Philosophical, Animal

Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Albert Schweitzer

Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

Nature, Adventure, Garden

John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

Peace, Nature, Inspiration

Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

Albert Einstein

Nature, Compassion, Animal

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

Nature, Zoos, Ocean

Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Michael J. Fox

Zoos, Animal, Needs

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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Nature, Humility

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

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