#animal

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle ↗

— Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#animals #childhood-memories #dogs #good-book #life-struggles

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people". ↗

— Julie Klam

#animals #dog #protection #love

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#children #humor #w-c-fields #humor

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#birds #humor #humorous #humor

If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan. ↗

— Timmothy Radman

#duck #humor #sounding-board #swan #ugly

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. ↗

— Thomas More

#human-nature #opinions #love

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #nature #love

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. ↗

— John Gray

#dying-animals #humans #life #straw-dogs #suicide

The free animal has its dying always behind it and God in front of it, and its way is the eternal way, as the spring flowing. Never, not for a moment, do we have pure space before us, where the flowers endlessly open. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#death #religion #death

Zonder poes komt het nooit helemaal goed ↗

— Midas Dekkers

#love #pets #love