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“We're animals, I think we forget that. I think there is an ancient archetypal memory that still exists within us. If we deny that, what is the cost? So I do think it's what binds us as human beings.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Stills Memories Human Beings Forget Animal Cost Ancient Deny

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.”

Actors Animal Roles Cost Majors Great Actors

Author:Tony Kushner

“While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.”

People Thinking Animal Cost Farms Dairy

Author:Neal Barnard

“There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.”

Animal Cost Developing No Point

Author:Kat Von D

“There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.”

People Want Beautiful Animal Magic Dangerous Cost Extraordinary Vain Obsessive Extraordinary Things Dangerous Animals

Author:Susan Orlean

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

Men Ideas Moments Lasts Dies Nature Animal Cost Advantage Strikes Clock Pet Funeral Theologian Ceremony Disturbed Miscellaneous Lawsuit Unwelcome

Author:Voltaire

“But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.”

Body Next Animal Generations Teaching Higher Cost Behavior Complexes Determined Dna Flexibility Adaptation Next Generation Dependency Adaptive

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.”