“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.” PeopleGivingJobsLawCausesAnimalModernCitizensCreaturesPerceptionStandingDestructionBlameFinalsIndividualityDelightVarietyHolinessReverenceChaptersConservationAbstractionInsistencePsalmsDestruction Of Nature Author:Wendell Berry
“[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.” PastAnimalFateCitizensPoliticianHatredActiveIndifferenceHistorianZookeepers Book:Beatrice & Virgil Source: Beatrice & Virgil
“Stupid National Anthem... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? "Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit."” WorldLooksKindDoeTwoHumorFunnyFightingAnimalStupidBearsCitizensMessagesFruitStealingFlagsAnthemImitatingWild AnimalNational AnthemPineapplesBelarus Author:Bill Bailey
“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.” AmericaAnimalMillionsLandIndustryCitizensRiversFishesBillionsMilesTreatedCrueltyMeatFarmsFarmersFactoriesUnnecessaryUnspeakableMeat Industry Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.” PeopleThinkingAnimalClassRightsPlanetsCitizensEqualThirdsEqual Rights Author:Sigourney Weaver