#animal

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#brought #essential #living #own #quality

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#almost #animal #any #anytime #blushing

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#beautiful #compassion #few #few people #get

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#before #had #human #human animal #less

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#anything #continue #doing #impractical #living

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#live #lives #love #more #natures

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. ↗

— Plato

#feet #flat #man #nails #two

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #animal #aware #become #i

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. ↗

— George A. Romero

#animal #die #ever #i #lassie