#animals

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#did #enjoying #i #life #me

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#life

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. ↗

— David Sedaris

#deer #possessions #funny

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chinese #civilisation #principle #systematic #wild

As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And rapists, but I’ve already listed that three times. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #lawyers #politicians #politics

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#creatures #death #fellow #fellow creatures #his

Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here. ↗

— Trisha McCagh

#beauty

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#between #commit #difference #humans #murder

Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the distance, trailing dust clouds. Cape buffalo snort and raise their horns and position themselves in front of their young. Giraffes stare over treetops, their huge brown eyes blinking, then lope away in seeming slow motion. But no elephants. ↗

— Thomas French

#elephants #stealth #life

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

— Will Cuppy

#humor #zoology #humor