Wildlife Animals Quotes

• Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

  Martin Buber

  Dog, Eye, Animal

  Martin Buber (2004). “I and Thou”, p.73, A&C Black

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• Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Baby, Love Life, Animal

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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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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  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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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Men, Compassion

  1903 Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Crime and Punishment'.

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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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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Dog, Nature

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.277, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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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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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Pet, Needs

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• I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Rights, Pet

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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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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Giving, Cameras

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• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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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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• 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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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Beautiful, Mom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

  Jean Paul

  Heart, Rapper, Animal

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• The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Peace, Soulmate, Honesty

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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