1,695 Quotes About Animals

It is just my imagination that flies,While she is wrapped up in her bedsheetslike a nest.

I looked at all the caged animals. . . . . . . the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness and betrayal. And I was angry."God," I said, "this is terrible! Why don't you do something?"God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly."I have done something. . .I created you.

omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)

Every great day has a story and a song!

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.