A Quotes
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“Animals live within ecological limits.
Humans try to bend ecology to their will.
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“Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.”
“Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.”
“Animals make us Human.”
Source: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
“Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.”
“Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.”
“Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.”
“Animals might whimper if they're hungry or cold. But they dont start screaming. It's a bad idea. The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.”
Source: Stella Maris
“Animals never forgive goodness.”
Source: The New Land
“Animals never overwork in nature. They only do that when they are working for humans.”
“Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
“Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.”
“Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.”
Source: Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4
“Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.”
Source: Collected Works
“Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.”
“Animals often strike us as passionate machines.”
“Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.”
“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.”
“Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.”
“Animals overwork only when they are working for humans.”
“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”
“Animals rise through a slope toward the summit like migratory
birds over an amavasya sky. I watch a mountain loop our prayers
like an echo through the darkness. A glistening comet appears
across the sky, a streak of purple phosphorescence, as a row of
earthen lamps lit over a porch.”
“Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.”
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”
“Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!”
“Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.”
“Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind”
“Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War
“Animals speak blood,
Machines speak brain.
Universe speaks numbers,
Humans speak love in pain.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.”
“Animals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.”
“Animals suffer as much as we do. The spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals should be fought against. We won’t have the audacity and the stony heart to impose such sufferings on them if only we were humane and understand what true humanity entails. And appallingly, humanity may not find the desired peace until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny.”
“Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.”
“Animals tend to be the most sensitive to the supernatural. They're usually the first family members to detect a haunting, followed by the kids, the wife, and the husband, in that order.”
Source: Maze of Souls
“Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.”
“Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.”
“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”
Source: The tugman's passage
“Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer fool say that religion is the 'older virtual reality' experience, to justify his scam industry. No, the denuded state of the spirit and intellect, where you walk around 'demystified' and 'disenchanted' is the virtual reality condition, and a terrible condition at that.”
Source: Bronze Age Mindset
“Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.”
“Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.”
Source: Autobiography of a Face
“Animals were highly sensitive, and when they were at peace, it took all of the panic from her soul and settled her into the same rhythm. If he had nothing to fear, neither did she.”
Source: Once I Knew
“Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.”
“Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.”
“Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.”
“Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.”
“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Animals who are exploited for “organic” foods are raised, maintained, transported, and slaughtered just like their nonorganic” counterparts: They are debeaked, dehorned, detoed, castrated, and/or branded, and they are kept, transported, and slaughtered in the same deplorable conditions.”
Source: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“Animals will be seen on the earth who will always be fighting against each other with the greatest loss and frequent deaths on each side. And there will be no end to their malignity; by their strong limbs we shall see a great portion of the trees of the vast forests laid low throughout the universe; and, when they are filled with food the satisfaction of their desires will be to deal death and grief and labour and wars and fury to every living thing; and from their immoderate pride they will desire to rise towards heaven, but the too great weight of their limbs will keep them down. Nothing will remain on earth, or under the earth or in the waters which will not be persecuted, disturbed and spoiled, and those of one country removed into another. And their bodies will become the sepulture and means of transit of all they have killed.
O Earth! why dost thou not open and engulf them in the fissures of thy vast abyss and caverns, and no longer display in the sight of heaven such a cruel and horrible monster?”
“Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.”
Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories