We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry BestonTags: animals
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh BillingsIf a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow WilsonIf God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Dave BarryAnybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
Leo RostenTags: humor animals children w-c-fields
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Willie NelsonTags: animals cheese competition birds mice timing worms
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Tags: animals
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 WalkerI ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen DeGeneresTags: humor animals killing animal-protection deer hunting taxidermy
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.
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