If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstrac...
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in...
With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a man, a house, a tree,...
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.
Nature is cheaper than therapy.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
The best about cats is they love cannot feign...
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions o...
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant,...
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelt...
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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