Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

—Gretel Ehrlich

About Gretel Ehrlich

Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet and essayist.

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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

—Gretel Ehrlich

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My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.

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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown

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I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

—Barbara Woodhouse

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There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.

—Elizabeth S. Eiler

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.… They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

—Walt Whitman

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