Quotes of: Wild-animal Keyword

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Douglas Coupland

Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

Nathan Wolfe

A man's sexual aim, he had often said to himself, is to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature that is the opposite of these; to demonstrate to an animal which is pretending not to be an animal ...

One Fat Englishman

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

Wicked Lovely

Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Jon Katz

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

H. Allen Smith

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Barbara Kingsolver

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting quest...

Yann Martel

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

J. M. Coetzee

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.

Thomas French

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the env...

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

Chuck Palahniuk

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

Lance Morrow

Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and...

The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character...

Tamora Pierce

To those who serve to protect the exotic animals in the rainforest. Thanks for making it possible for so many of them to remain in their natural habitat and for stopping those who are destroying the animals or transporting them from their homes in th...

Jaguar Pride

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

The Tent

What does animal welfare have to do with food safety? The animals are the food! They are living in their own excrement, developing horrific sores, stressed out, and, therefore, more vulnerable to illness and disease.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.

Matthew Scully

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