Humans And Animals Quotes - Page 4

• Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment,
  because their own presence is so instinctive,
  their attention so unwavering, the offer us
  a different kind of compassion than humans do.
  Anyone is lucky to have both human and
  animal comfort in their lives.

  Brenda Peterson

  Compassion, Animal, Comfort

  Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Memories, Animal, Behaviour

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• I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Stars, Animal, Moon

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• Earth allows several levels for Soul to gain experience in life, including the mineral, plant, fish, animal and human stages.

  Harold Klemp

  Animal, Tree, Soul

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• I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Animal, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

  Paul Gauguin

  Freedom, Animal, Joy

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Regret, Compassion

  "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Book by Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan, 1992.

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• The relationship between human and animal is wholly symbiotic. The person needs the animal for comfort and companionship, and the animal needs the love and caring of the human. It is a classic "win-win" situation. It sounds simple - and it is. That is why it works so well. In most cases, it will be remarkably spiritually uplifting to both human and animal.

  Ken Wahl

  Uplifting, Caring, Winning

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• Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Animal, Two

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• The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Example

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• 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, Ideas, Achievement

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• There is no reason at all to think that creatures with very different purposes and concerns would arrive at the scientific image, and no reason at all to accuse such creatures of getting the world wrong - a point that both Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche make when comparing human and animal perspectives.

  David E. Cooper

  Thinking, Animal, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Moving, Caring, Animal

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• Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.

  Theodor Schwenk

  Mother, Animal, Water

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• Between animal and human medicine, there is no dividing line-nor should there be.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Animal, Medicine, Lines

  Quoted in: Klauder JV: "Interrelations of human and veterinary medicine". N Engl J Med 1958, 1856.

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• 'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.

  Mark Doty

  Beautiful, Horse, Powerful

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• You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Real, Animal, People

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• American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Science, Animal, Brain

  "Is Cloning Monkeys Morally Wrong?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2007.

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• Angels are here and around us; perhaps all around us. But we have to have an ear for them and an eye for them, and that only comes when we have the courage and faith to open ourselves to a world inhabited by more than humans and animals. There are angels around us.

  Scot McKnight

  Eye, Angel, Animal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Found, Produce

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• Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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• If Darwinism is true, then there is no purpose or meaning to life, there is no morality, there's no qualitative difference between humans and animals, there's no life after death, and there's no purpose to human history. Now, are you trying to tell me that it doesn't really matter if people believe we evolved or not?

  Greg Koukl

  Believe, Animal, Differences

  "Does It Matter If We Evolved?". str.typepad.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an inescapable part of all nature, that its welfare is his welfare, that to survive, he cannot continue acting and regarding himself as a spectator looking on from somewhere outside.

  Fred Bodsworth

  Book, Animal, Men

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• It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to teach ahimsa, nonviolence, being compassionate on the animals and human beings. In the Christian religion also, it is clearly stated, 'Thou shall not kill'. So everywhere animal killing is restricted. In no religion the unnecessary killing of animals is allowed. But nobody is caring. The killing process is increasing, and so are the reactions. Every ten years you will find a war. These are the reactions.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Christian, War, Caring

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