I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.

I don't believe there is any justifiable reason for killing any animal unless perhaps if it's killing you! That would be negotiable.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.

I love shooting guns. I would never shoot an animal or hunt, but I probably would be a very good hit woman. It's hand-in-glove for me.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

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