Quotes of: Animal-world Keyword

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

Giordano Bruno

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Annie Dillard

The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means 'soul,' is also the root of the word 'animal.') Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children, though the children themselves don't ...

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls of protoplasm. We merge with animals...

The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia Of Animals In World Myth, Legend, And Literature

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter

The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.

Mona Simpson

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals.

M.F. Moonzajer

If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.

Mark Roth

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Don Bluth

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

We poetically construct our identity as human beings, together with our values, largely through reciprocal relationships with animals. They provide us with essential points of reference, as well as illustrations of the qualities that we may choose to...

The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia Of Animals In World Myth, Legend, And Literature

Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the w...

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put h...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.

Wilhelm Wundt

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world ...

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

If all the centenarians formed their own country, they’d be both the youngest country in the world, and the oldest.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.

Justin Baldoni