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“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psycho...”
“It wouldn't happen... There hasn't been one publication by a monkey”
“The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux has shown that the same neural mechanisms mediate the fear response in all sorts of animals, from pigeons and rats to cats and humans. The idea that other animals e...”
“What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewi...”
“The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.”
“The world is a giant zoo. The trouble is, not all of the animals are civilized.”
“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flo...”
“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.”
“To be thankful for just being alive...To survive means to win... That only applies to animals, but I'm a human being!”
“The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.”
“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion that nonhuman animals do not have an interest in continued existencethat they do not have an intere...”
“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
“The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't just that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses, or that you must be strong and steady as the horse careens to the far end of ...”
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simp...”
“I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.”
“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”
“On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. "Look at all them stink bugs," Hazel remarked, grateful t...”
“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
“You only fail when you give up.”
“If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a g...”
