A Quotes
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“Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.”
“Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.”
“Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.”
“Animals give birth to children, so that alone is not an argument strong enough to make a human a man. Otherwise goats, dogs and pigs could beat us to the game, because they could do in one go what will take man years to accomplish. A woman can only give birth to a number of kids at a time, in a year, while some animals could give birth to as many as tens of breeds in a year.”
“Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.”
“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.”
“Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“Animals had returned to what was left of the forest...clusters of orange butterflies exploded off the blackish purple piles of bear sign and winked and fluttered magically like leaves without trees. More bears than people traveled the muddy road, leaving tracks straight up and down the middle of it...”
Source: Train Dreams
“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.”
“Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.”
“Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.”
“Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.”
“Animals have barriers of language, humans have the bridge of heart.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.”
“Animals have come to mean so much in
our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly,
religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate.
What's one thing that we have in our lives
that we can depend on? A dog or a cat
loving us unconditionally , every day, very
faithfully.”
“Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here”
“Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.”
Source: Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
“Animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see and families to care for...just like you and me.”
“Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.”
“Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.”
Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light
“Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.”
“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”
“Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!”
“Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Animals have so much to teach us. The sad reality is, unfortunately, most humans destroy or kill what they do not know, understand or value. That is how we are as a species.”
“Animals have their tragic and their comic side, and resemble us in many ways. They, too, have their distinctions and individualities. Many people believe that there is a huge gap separating them from the animals, but it is only really a step in the Wheel of Life, for we are all children of the One. To understand a fellow creature, we must regard him as a brother.”
Source: Among animals: the collected animal stories
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
“Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.”
Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
“Animals have to die for us to live, but they don't have to suffer," he says.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.”
“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“Animals (human and nonhuman) feel pain, can suffer, and ought to be treated accordingly – pain and suffering are always of moral concern.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“ANIMALS... in a world far older than ours, finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, live by voices we shall never hear.”
“Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.”
“Animals in our lives can be a blessing.”
Source: A Spiritual Dog: "Bear"
“Animals in pens have lots of time to develop theories", said the Cow, "I've heard more than one clever creature draw a connection between the rise of tiktokism and the erosion of traditional Animal labour. We weren't beasts of burden, but we were good reliable labourers. If we were made redundant in the workforce, it was only a matter of time before we'd be socially redundant too.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.”
“Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.”
Source: Life of Pi
“Animals interest me more than anything else.”
“Animals intrinsically know that being part of the loving energy of healing holds the key to a deeper connection with the provider. Moreover, if the healing comes from the ones that love and understand them, greater achievements can be made.”
Source: Animal Healing: Hands-On Holistic Techniques
“Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.”
“Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.”
“Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.”
“Animals learn early on that man holds dominion over them. Man on the other hand takes a bit longer to learn. Man is given free will by our Master only to find he spends his life learning to surrender it.”
Source: JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master
“Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!”
“Animals live in the natural world and humans live in the unnatural world.”
“Animals live on blood,
Machines live on logic.
Universe lives in numbers,
Humans live unselfish.”
Source: The Divine Refugee