156 quotes found
“It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plu...”
“The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat t...”
“Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.”
“You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.”
“I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.”
“Try repeating “man is an animal" a few times, just to notice how unconvincing it sounds. There seems to be no way to get this idea into our heads, except by long rumination over the facts of evolut...”
“Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.”
“Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animal’s actions can inform you if it is in pain. It don’t hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunc...”
“The most polluted animal on the planet today is the modern human.”
“(...) 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.”
“Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to c...”
“He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.”
“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 hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing”
“The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.”
“I just can’t think of anybody abusing an animal; nor of allowing it to stay around, sick, hurt or hungry. I think that an animal is but a point short of human; and, having a skin varying but slight...”
