#animals

...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.... ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#humor #humor

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. ↗

— Mark Twain

#dogs #heaven #inspirational #man #religion

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. ↗

— Mahatma Ghandi

#humankind #inspiration #morals #protection #inspirational

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#goodness #humanity #lambs #sheep #life

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#man #peace #people #life

Cat rescue is like a virus," says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable. ↗

— Denise Flaim

#cats #rescue #life

All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the wildness of the world and behold its beauty, but that we must first contain that wildness. Zoos argue that they are fighting for the conservation of the Earth, that they educate the public and provide refuge and support for vanishing species. And they are right. Animal-rights groups argue that zoos traffic in living creatures, exploiting them for financial gain and amusement. And they are right. Caught inside this contradiction are the animals themselves, and the humans charged with their well-being. ↗

— Thomas French

#wildness #zoo #beauty

Wer kann es sagen, wer nur ahnen, wie weit das Geistesvermögen der Tiere geht! ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#intelligence #intelligence

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#humanity #life

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#love #morality #sympathy #love