If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. —Will Cuppy More about this quote Tags: intelligence perception animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives. —Rigoberta Menchú More about this quote Tags: humanity world nature animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back. —Stephenie Geist More about this quote Tags: emotions communication language animals pets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If cats could talk, they wouldn’t. —Nan Porter More about this quote Tags: cats animals politeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: dogs animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: humanity animals mercy protection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am sometimes asked, “Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?” I answer, “I am working at the roots.” —George T. Angell More about this quote Tags: kindness time money animals cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Practice love first on animals; they are more sensitive. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: love relationships sensitivity animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: sin pride greatness animals earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: life God peace animals whining Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: humanity nature animals interconnectedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world. —Barbara Woodhouse More about this quote Tags: humanity communication animals earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. —A. Whitney Brown More about this quote Tags: humor morality animals vegetarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —Liz Smith More about this quote Tags: feeling sorrow death eyes dogs cats animals souls Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. —Gretel Ehrlich More about this quote Tags: animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email