If Darwin’s theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present.
Animals Quotes
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Many years ago when an adored dog died, a great friend, a bishop, said to me, “You must always remember that, as far as the Bible is concerned, God only threw the humans out of Paradise.”
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eat an endangered plant?
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man.
When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood, Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will, Starve, scourge, deride […]
The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Then, (said (Johnson),) the pigs are a race unjustly calumniated. Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig. We do not allow time for his education, we kill him at a year old.
