Animals Quotes

“History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.”
― Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life

“Sometimes animals are more human than men and men more animals than animals”
― Michelangelo Saez, Zori 1ª Parte

“Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals”
― Michelangelo Saez, Zori 2ª Parte

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”
― John Benfield

“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with us has sensitized them to what troubles us. They feel our anxiety and our confusion and, most of all, our loneliness. The pain of being disconnected from the Earth, from each other, from our fellow creatures, and from the Source of all life is the worst pain they can imagine, and they are concerned about us. They understand even better than we do that the suffering we inflict on them is an expression of our own suffering, and that their physical situation cannot get better unless the human spiritual condition gets better. They want to help.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals”
― Michelangelo Saez, Zori 2ª Parte

“Animals are not supposed to have the power to reason and therefore don't care whether there is life after death. But imagine animals trying to cheer themselves up in the same way that our own ancestors did when faced with death, by believing that there is life after death. How would they resolve the problem that in the afterlife they might once more be eaten by man?”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, The Mute's Soliloquy: a Memoir

“Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.”
― Amit Kalantri

“They have achieved a level of organization far beyond others of their species. Unfortunately, it is being used for destructive purposes at the moment. Don't look so surprised my dear, it's in the nature of the beast.'
'But these squirrels are not beasts!' Amber protested.
'Oh pish-posh, we are all of us beasts,' the professor replied lightly. 'The trouble comes when we try to pretend that we're not.”
― Janet Taylor Lisle, Forest

“A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.”
― Kimberley Payne, Adam's Animals - fun facts about God's Creation

“Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Slow animals always become prey in the end.”
― John Connolly, The Wolf in Winter

“It is a fundamental misperception," Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.”
― Lauren Slater, The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

“Animals are on earth to protect mankind. When you gather a bunch of them together like this, you create a safe haven. Nothing can touch you here.”
― Jonathan Carroll, White Apples

“Here's something you must know and don't forget it - animals never lie. They don't like, they don't put on disguises, and they are always true to what they are. That's why you can trust them.”
― Jonathan Carroll, White Apples

“Lions should be strong but sweet beasts in a Disney cartoon. But they aren't, so when they act like lions you're angry at them for not being the fantasy animals you imagined. Russian bears don't put on top hats and ride unicycles. Or sleep in bed next to Goldilocks. People force them to do those stupid things in circuses and films and children's books. Sure, some will be more docile or more ferocious than others, but in the end they will always, always be bears. And you should never turn your back on them. You should never even get near them; it's that simple. They're not being dishonest - you are in your perception of them.”
― Jonathan Carroll, White Apples

“Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.”
― Linda Bender

“Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.”
― Gregory Benford, Shipstar

“Fighting with tangles,
fighting with curls,
the poor barber yanked,
the poor barber pulled,
until with one last effort
(and to the wonder of us all)
a GINORMOUS Polar Bear
landed on the floor.”
― Mili Fay, Animals In My Hair

“Animals remind us that all beings who walk, stand, swim, crawl, or fly are radiant, mysterious, and unique expressions of the Source. Every species, every culture, has it’s own genius.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“It is my understanding from an intuitive relationship with animals that it is complete folly to try to figure out what is right or wrong for humans by observing what other animals are doing. Observe any animal and you will quickly figure out that a hawk does not try to hunt like an eagle. The wolf does not try to be a lion.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“To be sure, there are human abilities that other animals lack, but the more we learn about animals, the more abilities we discover that humans lack. Obviously, if animals were included in the Olympics, humans wouldn’t take home any gold medals. We can’t run as fast as a cheetah, swim as well as a fish, or lift as much weight as an elephant.”
― Linda Bender

“Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods

“Healing is about choices—choices to treat or not to treat, to
choose one type of intervention over another, or to choose one
method of treatment in conjunction with another. One choice does not eliminate all other possibilities.
You can choose and choose again. The most important
choice is the decision to heal; all else follows.”
― Wanda Buckner, Choosing Energy Therapy: A Practical Guide to Healing Options for People and Animals