156 quotes found
“I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other peoples faeces more disgusting than a birds droppings, or they do not find the latter disgusting at all.”
“I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.”
“We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.”
“I am here, come closer, the old donkey said with her eyes. I will mother you.”
“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and all the life had gone o...”
“(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.”
“The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.”
“He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.”
“It all begins with faith. If we believed animal went to heaven, we wouldn't send them there prematurely”
“There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There is must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of m...”
“He didnt like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.”
“Their song reminds me of a childs neighborhood rallying cryee-ock-eewith a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call...”
“A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!”
“You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked...”
“This, for many people, is what's most offensive about huntingto some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing”
“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.The Earth will forget man...”
“The symbology of the sphinx is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.”
“Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldnt have been more different I, a terrestrial v...”
“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capit...”
“Like some winter animal the moon licks the salt of your hand,Yet still your hair foams violet as a lilac treeFrom which a small wood-owl calls.”
