Quotes on Animals In Nature

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when dead they become withered and dry. Therefore it is said: the hard and tough are parts of death; the soft and tender are parts of life.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.