“How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.” PeopleKnowsHeartEyeAnimalBloodAdventureRedShiningBusyAffairWoodsWarmTeethRelatedMultitudes Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.” YearsWellsMayAgeYoungUsedAnimalTreeParticularEvolutionProtectBirdFruitForestsFallenRelatedApplesPlusMatureFarmsAncestorSequenceIndigenousDeerCattleHardyMammalsOrchardFigsPlumsBlackberriesFruit TreesBrowsingCitrusQuince Author:Bill Mollison
“I had always dreamed of being involved in a job where I could do anything related to animals and nature. A vet maybe. But later I came to understand that it was just a temporary interest and that music was more important to me.” ImportantJobsInterestAnimalInvolvedRelatedTemporaryVets Author:Tarkan
“The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just an animal, then he doesn't live forever, he has no soul. And if men don't have a soul, then there's no afterlife. No heaven, no fiery deterrent of hell to keep people in line in this life. And if there's no fiery deterrent to keep people in line, "well then we might as well have hell on Earth!" the critics said.” PeopleIfsMenHumansWellsSaidIdeasSoulMightEarthHeavenLinesAnimalHellForeverCreationCriticsThis LifeRelatedAfterlifeAncestorApesLive ForeverFierySubversiveHell On EarthDeterrent Author:James Moore
“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.” SoulFactsActionDesireThreeAnimalVirtueSpecialElementsCapableFunctionIntellectRelatedFacultySensationsAttainment Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.” PeopleShowsAnimalStudyViolenceCrimeHigherAreasAbuseRateViolentRelatedVariablesSlaughterhousesInterpersonalViolent CrimesCrime Rates Author:Jonathan Balcombe
“It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.” ShouldFactsSpaceAnimalWonderWonderfulGroupsPlantAll TimeRelatedTime And SpaceFamiliaritySubordinatesOrigin Of Species Book:On the Origin of Species Source: On the Origin of Species
“The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.” PeopleIfsHas BeensCountryMatterProblemAnimalAreasAbsolutesChinaTreatedRelatedPetFarmsFormulasRecallsInfantInconsequentialFood SupplyForerunnersPet Food Author:Marion Nestle
“All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.” MindKindDifferentFeelingsAnimalExistenceRolesActivityAnxietyFemaleMalesRelatedDifferent KindsOwnershipDominanceSpecializationMale Dominance Author:Terence McKenna