Why Look at Animals? Quotes

“To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

“The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

“Nature is energy and struggle. It is what exists without any promise. If it can be thought of by man as an arena, a setting, it has to be thought of as one which lends itself as much to evil as to good. Its energy is fearsomely indifferent.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

“The Creationists, like all bigots, derive their fervour from rejection--the more they can reject, the more righteous they themselves feel.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

“The garden is a kind of sanctuary.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?

“Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.”
― John Berger, Why Look at Animals?