“exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.” AnimalEffortSawsStrangeRainRootsChaosSeedsOddSunsetExaggeratedCollision Book:Different Hours: Poems Source: Different Hours: Poems
“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.” ShouldHumansDifferentMatterSufferingUnderstandingAnimalResponsibilityCompassionMoralVirtueGreaterProgressDespairCapacityRootsIntellectMedicalAnimal RightsHuman AnimalManureMoral ResponsibilityAnimal SufferingUnderstanding And Compassion Author:Jane Goodall
“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.” IfsBodyActionGivenAnimalEatingRootsIf I CouldSignificanceRitualGrainFillingUtilitarian Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.” WantActionEarthFormUniverseEnergyHeavenAnimalTakenAdventureFitRootsConclusionBuriedExtinctionWant UOld DaysRecycledMicroorganisms Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.” DifficultAnimalRootsRodeo Author:Demetri Martin