#animal

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. ↗

— David Duchovny

#cruel #ever #i #think

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#animal #animal life #appetite #eats #healthy

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beautiful #created #excessively #ideal #man

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal. ↗

— Janine Turner

#believe #firmly #however #i #i do

I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together. ↗

— M. Emmet Walsh

#cats #different #different thing #dogs #get

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. ↗

— Asa Gray

#become #before #best #definition #differentiated

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#man #rather #reasonable #reasoning #than

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#about #around #basic #enjoy #land