It was quite incomprehensible to me …why in my evening prayers I should pray for human beings only. So when my mother had prayed with me and had kissed me goodnight, I used to add silently a prayer that I had composed myself for all living creatures. It ran thus: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath; guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace. " —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: God belief prayer animals blessing human beings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: friendship ignorance religion learning animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same: no recognition of rights — only murder in one form or another. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: murder animals heaven charity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It can truly be said: Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: evil animals cruelty animal cruelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "Because it's such a beautiful animal. " There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Tags: animals hunting photographs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. —Anna Sewell More about this quote Tags: words suffering feelings animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky. —Marguerite Henry More about this quote Tags: life achievement permanence animals glory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sense of smell in the animal is what intuition is to the human spirit. It tells you of the invisible, of what cannot be detected by any other means. It tells you the things that are not there, yet are coming. You see into the blind, opaque past and round the corner of time. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: invisible spirit smell animals blindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake. —Max Picard More about this quote Tags: silence nature animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The cat is a dilettante in fur. —Théophile Gautier More about this quote Tags: cats animals fur Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: power work animals control enslavement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To everyone's surprise, wildlife abounds in the deserted environs of the doomed [Chernobyl] nuclear plant. Elk, wild pigs, wolves, and rabbits all seem to be flourishing. These animals have somehow learned to cope with the high levels of radiation. Who knows, perhaps there are mutations: A pig that can climb. A rabbit with a prehensile tail. An elk with a unicorn's horn. Cells are quick-change artists. Life loves life. Humans may end, but the world won't. —Sybil Smith More about this quote Tags: life danger nature disaster animals wildlife nuclear power mutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: God art animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continually use and reuse the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: life progress animals harmony plants air equilibrium Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. —Pat Buckley More about this quote Tags: God nature animals birds Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email