Quotes of: Animal-world Keyword

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

Temple Grandin

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

Marcello Malpighi

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

Stan Sakai

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

Yvonne Craig

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

Daniel Pauly

Bela Lugosi: Home? I have no home. Hunted... despised... living like an animal. The jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of people... a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!

Ed Wood

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet

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

What is the bottom line for the animal/human hierarchy? I think it is at the animate/inanimate line, and Carol Adams and others are close to it: we eat them. This is what humans want from animals and largely why and how they are most harmed. We make ...

Catherine Mackinnon

An animal's end is slaughter.

Yiddish

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our b...

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

Animal Mother: You a photographer? Private Joker: I'm a combat correspondent. Animal Mother: Well, you seen much combat? Private Joker: [sarcastic] I've seen a little on TV. Animal Mother: You're a real comedian. Private Joker: Well, they call me the...

Full Metal Jacket

[Shapiro received 7 letters at mail call] Animal: What do all those broads say? Shapiro: What do they always say? Animal: Lemme read one. Shapiro: It's not good for you, Animal. Animal: Hey, this is with a typewriter... it's from a finance company. S...

Stalag 17

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

If you're buying animal products and can go to the farm and actually see how the animals are looked after, yes, that's an important point. That's definitely the best way of assuring yourself that the animals are being well treated.

Peter Singer

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Gary L. Francione

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

Gary L. Francione