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“Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.”
― Thomas Hardy

“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.”
― Thomas Hardy

“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
― Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”
― Henry Miller

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Essays

“...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

“There is no better designer than nature.”
― Alexander McQueen

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”
― Alice Walker

“We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”
― Roger Caras

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
― Anatole France

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

“All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. The man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela