Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people".

It was great to see the owls," I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.

I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.

They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.

My girlfriend bought me a collared shirt for my birthday, mainly so I don’t get too far ahead of her when she takes me for a walk.