Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.

For an animal to attack you, you must smell or look either dangerous, or delicious, or at least nutritious.

Religious commandments make humans seem way less animal than they are.

Thanks to racism, some of the people who often kiss animals are disgusted by even the mere thought of them touching some people.

The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.