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If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Betty took him for a walk in the zoo and he was amused by her evident belief in the curative power of animals. She seemed to think that it must steady him to look at a buffalo.
I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.
When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.
The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
