#animals

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#humor #zoology #humor

I’ll never go hungry, because I’m a pet owner and a meat eater. I used to own broccoli, but taking it for a walk in the park didn’t work out so well. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#broccoli #hunger #hungry #meat #park

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge. ↗

— Tom Regan

#humans #self-knowledge

When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#emotion #empathy

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#love

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person. ↗

— Matthew Scully

#eating #ethics #food #meat #food

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

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

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