“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.” MenWorldWayMadeUseSeemsEarthFormCultureUnderstandingTermNatureAnimalDarknessCenturyTaughtCivilizationRelationPlantObstaclesEnormousWildernessDogmaCrystalsConceitWildness Author:John Muir
“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.” MenHumansImportantFormPoliticalSocialInterestHuman BeingsAnimalRelationFellowsAbsorbingPolitical Animals Author:Logan Pearsall Smith
“The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world?” WorldAnimalSunOne ThingRelationReactions Author:Ivan Pavlov
“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.” MenWorldArtPhilosophyStoriesChristianEnergyLanguageStarsAnimalMankindWallFitNewsRelationConstantMythCirclesGreekIntimateReportsCompanionBelongingCavesDnaAcquaintanceRumorEgyptianSpeechlessReligion ChristianPrehistoricZodiacNews StoriesHindu ReligionGreek PhilosophyChristian Art Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.” IfsMenLooksLongReasonEyeFeltSidesAnimalDangerStrangePeriodsMadnessRelationDistanceOneselfMonstersBarsCompromiseMechanismRenaissanceResemblance Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.” WorldHumansWellsGivenStarsBornNaturalAnimalSeaLandPlanetsDependsCivilizationCreaturesRelationPlantContemporaryWell BeingNatural World Author:Chellis Glendinning
“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.” IfsFirstsChildrenWholeSpiritWaterNaturalAnimalCommonDangerousRainRelationPlantPhenomenonPeculiarAncestorSparesGuardianClansHelpersOraclesTotemsNatural Phenomena Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.” WellsDoneJobsMy OwnAnimalInterestingTeachingStrangeRelationPhonesPublic Relations Author:Garry Winogrand
“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” PeopleKnowsMenWorldAnimalLeaderWorstCreationCreaturesEternalRelationSpeciesPhilosopherConvincedAnimal RightsScholarCrownsNaziTreblinka Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.” PeopleWayNeedsWellsHas BeensDesireAnimalGraceHonorEatingRelationCookingPlantSpeciesCelebrateCooksFungi Author:Michael Pollan
“No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.” MenFirstsNatureAnimalRelationVeganVegan Health Author:Victor Hugo
“The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.” PeopleShouldFirstsHumansSpiritSufferingHumanityEvilIndividualAnimalResultsAll ThingsRelationFellowsWelfareIndifferencePetVeganContemptSensibilityHuman SpiritExhibitsRefinementAnimal WelfareAnimal EthicsKindness To AnimalsCallousnessAnimal Suffering Author:Ashley Montagu
“Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.” KnowsMenWorldWholeBodyRunningActionMovingLawCertainChoicesUniverseCausesAnimalPathSubjectsEffectsPlanetsMaterialsRelationMotiveHeavenlyFree WillAttributesCompellingConsistencySequenceCause And EffectSeemingWhimMaterial WorldRegularityHeavenly Bodies Author:Clarence Darrow
“What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity.” WorldWayKindDoeHomeLawCertainHumanityOrderSidesAnimalCompassionFlowerThousandRelationPressureCarefulStrikesInjuryFarmersBe CarefulReverenceCowsIdleInsignificantAmusementMeadowsAnimal WorldWay HomeLaws Of LifeReverence For LifeInsignificant Things Author:Albert Schweitzer
“cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.” MenHumansFeelingsSufferingNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalDutyMoralityRelationPhilosophicalContraryCrueltyTendenciesAnimal Cruelty Author:Immanuel Kant
“One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.” WorldFirstsHumansMadeReasonMomentsSeemsScienceNaturalAnimalBrainStudyProgressCreationObjectsHigherHighestRelationComplicatedCriticalComplexityOrgansIrresistibleHaltHuman BrainNatural ScienceCritical Moments Author:Ivan Pavlov
“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?” ThinkingMenBelieveHumansHeartLightLawStrongI BelieveJusticeAnimalBreakKindnessDutyEthicsWeakUniversalRelationMadDepthOneselfPityLengthSentimentsThinkerBreak ThroughComplementAnimal EthicsUprightness Author:Victor Hugo
“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.” IfsMenBodyValuesCoursesAnimalProducePersonalityHigherDisciplineCapableRelationScalesBackgroundsExcellentUrgesFacultyProgressiveDisplayAppreciatedPhysical Body Author:J. C. Kumarappa
“If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.” IfsNeedsYearsFirstsGodHappensWishAnimalShareDogRelationLive ByGlancesFifthNeed God Author:Enid Bagnold