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“human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By the time we are adults we no longer remember.”

Ifs Humans Wells Children Remember Animal Adults Communicate Granted Human Animal

Book:Alice Walker Banned

Source: Alice Walker Banned

“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.”

Ifs Men Needs Law Humanity Individual Justice Animal Terrible Members Resources Beast Savages

Author:Aristotle

“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.”

Ifs Animal Hunting Hunters Suitable Hunting And Fishing

Author:Aristotle

“If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.”

Ifs World Should Animal Bird Animal Rights Cages

Author:Isak Dinesen

“I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”

Ifs Eye Dark Animal Morning Sky Hundred Twenties Finished Nine Iron Massive Horns Mist Herds Buffalo Copper Morning Mist

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”

Ifs Made Shows Eye Water Nature Animal Sky Events Fields Color Blue Green Paint Vegetables Vary Superfluous Minerals Hue

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.”

Ifs Certain Animal Taught Advantage Critics Excuse Ass Compare Vines Excuse Me Pruning

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.”

Ifs Men Certain Differences Animal Money

Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“Oh, we are ridiculous animals; and if the angels have any fun in them, how we must divert them!”

Ifs Fun Animal Angel Ridiculous

Book:The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts

Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts

“If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Humans Reason Forget Animal Revolution Farms

Author:RuPaul

“Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.”

Ifs Persons Animal Dog Lovers Cat Animal Love Weasels Hamsters Animal Lover Zebras

Book:Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned

Source: Cats with Attitude: Two Volumes in One Collection : Everything Here is Mine · My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-boned

“It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Seems Kids Next Stuff Animal Minutes Flower Caring Rage Adolescence Little Kid Hormones Stew

Book:Sugar Rush

Source: Sugar Rush

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“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.”

Ifs Lying Animal Path Regeneration

Author:Dora Russell

“I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action.”

Ifs Body Action Given Animal Eating Roots If I Could Significance Ritual Grain Filling Utilitarian

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.”

Ifs Would Be Animal Hell Dignity Criminal Mind Used In Criminal Minds

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Animal Dog Shapes Cat Bunch Elephants Sinking Squirrels Ark Overboard Cat Dog Small Animals

Author:Vilfredo Pareto

“Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Animal Travel Comfortable Clothes Dresses Zoos Disneyland Artifacts Quaint Flora

Author:Alison Lurie

“if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.”

Ifs Animal

Author:Rosa Bonheur

“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”

Source: A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

“Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot.”

Ifs Matter Used Voice Animal Talking Expression Shots Terror Tone Shock Cows Harsh

Author:Barbara Woodhouse

“one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.”

Ifs Giving Animal Deals Oneself

Author:Barbara Woodhouse

“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.”

Ifs Humans Littles Animal Jokes Female Cat Males Passing Passings Irrelevant Jest Human Animal

Author:Marie de Gournay

“I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.”

Ifs Certain Next Realizing Animal Issues Environment Generations Concerned Impact Critical Welfare Next Generation Animal Welfare This Generation

Author:Michael Pollan

“If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.”

Ifs Might Care Answers Animal Environment Being The Best Farms Factories Pesticides If You Care

Author:Michael Pollan

“Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.”

Ifs Certain Dies Animal Sacrifice Involved Vegetables Farming

Author:Michael Pollan

“If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.”

Ifs Looks Littles Two Moments Kids Force Animal Groups Little Kid Wild Animal

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.”

Ifs Needs Actors Energy Animal Goes On Sheer

Author:Hume Cronyn

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.”

Source: Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild

“There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.”

Ifs Way Asks Animal Sweet Fruit Seeds Lists Vegetables Cows Artificial Selection Counterparts Juicy Genetically Modified

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.”

People Ifs Way I Can Animal Sticks Behave If I Could

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.”

Ifs Stills Care Animal Party Lows Sick Lays Take Care Party Animal

Author:Cote de Pablo

“People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.”

People Ifs Looks Night Order Next House Animal Morning Streets Flower Holland Glisten

Author:Felix Marti-Ibanez

“Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.”

Ifs Needs Long Running Spirit Passion Animal Creativity Risk Feds Starving

Author:Nancy Lam

“Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.”

Ifs Needs Important Helping Able Three Animal Roles Technology Tree Empowerment India Increase Contribution Divides Introducing Agriculture Farming Harness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.”

Ifs Years Wells Problem Lasts Lost Loses Answers Animal Millions Events Victim Plant Faults Species Extinction Plants And Animals

Author:Paul Watson

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.”

Ifs Men Long States Humanity Three Animal Doubt Growing Worst Civilization Kissing Western Invention No Doubt Folly Distinction Decline Long Ago Patriarchy Fermentation

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Joy Wish Stars Understanding Animal Succeed Plant Fulfillment Fervent

Book:Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.”

People Ifs Want Giving Humans Looks Different Chance Human Beings Animal Monsters Decent Want Something

Author:Ice Cube

“If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.”

People Ifs Looks Animal Wonderful Findings Educational Driving About Yourself Enlightening

Author:Paul Theroux

“If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.”

Ifs Mind Feelings Stuff Animal Trouble Strange Jail

Author:Mike Tyson

“When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time. If you're skiing in a gorilla suit and you fall, you just see a gorilla who has no emotion. It's just a stoic gorilla, wildly falling down a hill, out of control.”

Ifs Whole Happens Fall Animal Emotion Expression Suits Hills Costumes Falling Down Skiing Stoic Facial Gorillas Facial Expression

Author:Demetri Martin

“Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.”

Ifs Feels Fall Animal Attention Tree Forests Shy Belly Clearing Stumps

Book:Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation

Source: Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation

“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”

Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star

“If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.”

People Ifs Running Animal Treats Running Away Don't Trust

Book:The Christmas Sweater

Source: The Christmas Sweater

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.”

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

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