Quotes of: Human-animal Keyword

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equali...

Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Animals don't know exactly what will happen when they die any more than we do. In the absence of specific knowledge, they simply trust. They trust death the way they trust life: as participation in the Source. What will happen when they die must be o...

Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here...

Stories from the Animal Whisperer: What Your Pet Is Thinking and Trying to Tell You

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh ...

Tragic Sense of Life

At the same time we see the phenomenon of successful women adopting the standards of men with a vengeance. Will women's march to power ascendancy, won against all odds, mean that they too will choose to flaunt their preferences for red meat, animal s...

Maria Comninou

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my all...

Mark Twain

Mr. Fox: [after animals have dug through the wall] You scared the cuss out of us! Badger: A lot of good animals... [starts screaming] Badger: ... are probably going to die, because of you! Half the woods have been obliterated, nobody can get out, and...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Sir, — Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point; but can it be too much to ask [for a definitive acknowledgement that at least they are animals?… Many hon. members may object to...

What It Means To Be Human

The world is a perfect design. If we can see it. If we can see ourselves and our surroundings. A vast sky held up by pillars. A carpet of earth that gives us all the food and fruit and nourishment we need to live. Animals of every species. Some that ...

Shems Friedlander

The mountains are never so far apart but the animals find one another.

American

...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the environment is de-restricted to become the world as an integral whole of manifest and latent elements. The second step is the wor...

Du mußt dein Leben ändern

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severa...

The Sane Society

My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how...

Paper Towns

People get their benefits as individuals but we all pay the cost together, same as the doomed mice of Gough island. The problem is not just fossil fuel emissions either, humans are killing rhinos, elephants, gorillas, and countless other endangered a...

Love

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

Adam's Animals - fun facts about God's Creation

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

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A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

My future, it almost looks like Christmas—red and green—stop and go.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I’m not in the system. I’m starting to question my own existence.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I say we cut our government in half, with a chainsaw along their waists.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I don’t want a home, but I do want to buy a lot that I like a lot.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom