Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
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Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
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 animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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