If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
If called by a panther Don't anther.
Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic.
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Dogs come when they are called cats take a message and get back to you.
Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip diminished Neat through loopholes Less than themselves.
Having shot down a number, some of which were anly wounded, the whole flock swept repeatedly around their prostrate companions, and again settled on a low tree, within twenty yards of the spot where I...
Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mista...
Get out of bed and feed me already, person!
What is the message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves- that...
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.