#animal

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

#exception #existence #monkeys #most #playful

My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brother's keeper. ↗

— Mary Johnston

#brother #feeling #keeper #our #toward

If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though, because I have nothing to do with my becoming one. But, whereas animals don't have a rational code of ethics, I like to think I do. Which is where I am partisan. Moral partisanship is the reason for my "anger." And if I don't protest what needed to be protested, I might just as well be an animal. ↗

— Paul Krassner

#animal #ethics #human-being #protest #anger

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarian #vegetarianism #change

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. ↗

— Doris Day

#beautiful #beauty #fur #fur-coat #killing

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#dairy #eggs #factory-farming #food #ignorance

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#beauty #myth #truth #beauty

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#capacity #climate #every #his #man

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#animal #around #clean #clean up #clear

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. ↗

— Robert Southey

#animal #animal world #garden #kitten #world