“I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.” PeopleHardCharacterHelpingStoriesUseEnergyAnimalPathPiecesFindingsFlowPlantOrganizeCarbonGood CharacterEnergy Flow Author:Michael Pollan
“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.” PeopleIfsLooksAnimalWonderfulFindingsEducationalDrivingAbout YourselfEnlightening Author:Paul Theroux
“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.” WritingMindFirstsHeartBookMatterHardUseEyeOpportunityMy OwnAnimalSeeingMovementOfficeFindingsUnderstoodFunctionDifficultyDissection Author:William Harvey
“The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.” PeopleStatesPainFoundWaterAnimalUnitedKnownTechnologyUnited StatesMinutesProductsAmountFindingsResearchPlantEnvironmentalYesterdayTreatmentOnlineDozenSiteJournalSurveysHormonesScience And TechnologyPlants And AnimalsAntibioticsEnvironmental Science Author:Andrew Revkin
“I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.” ThinkingArtHappensAnimalWindFindingsI RealizedMuseumsZoos Author:Patti Smith
“Mechanical Animals for me documents the repair of my emotions, the repair of my soul, and this record does deal with God in a different way. It deals with me finding God in art, and in music. I think there's more spirituality in art than you could find in a church” ThinkingWayDoeArtDifferentSoulSpiritualityChurchAnimalDealsEmotionRecordsFindingsMy SoulDifferent WaysDocumentsFinding God Author:Marilyn Manson
“Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.” WayAnimalGoodnessDiseaseFindingsJokesScientistCancerExperimentsTreatmentKillersHumaneHumane Way Author:Carol Leifer
“I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I'm a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.” TryingTwoHelpingHomeAnimalDogParticularFindingsCatOrganizationIncrediblesBelieverFirmWelfareRescueDevotedShelterAmbassadorsTwo DogsAnimal Shelter Author:Patrick Fabian
“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.” LifeShouldChildrenLittlesSometimesDreamHandsLife IsFallNextAnimalTalkingFlowerOne DayFindingsSittingFalling In LoveAncientObviousKneesEach DayCollectionsSunsetBreezeGood DayBenchesRefreshingOne Day At A TimeCreeksSitting On The Bench Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)” HumansKindSaidDoneMightLastsCertainLanguageUnderstandingSleepAnimalHalfFindingsWarmArguingEndlessEveningBeastHuntsSaid And DoneGlandsSporadic Author:Jonathan Stroud
“To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.” KnowsWorldFirstsHumansNatureAnimalStreetsGrewThousandTenMountainFindingsFirst TimeMachinesTyrannyForestsSymbolsClockCommerceBricksBrandedUntamedFootpaths Book:The Illustrated West with the Night Source: The Illustrated West with the Night