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Animal Quotes (page 59)

Alain de Botton quote: "A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings..."
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. Alain de Botton
There was something about the eyes. It wasn’t the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was… … a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. It said: You are animal. It said: Perhaps you may be a pet, or perhaps you may be a quarry. It said: And the choice is not yours. Terry Prachett
Leonardo da Vinci quote: "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the..."
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. Leonardo da Vinci
In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for a period of twelve months, with no law against changing dogs or keeping more than one animal at a time. Aldous Huxley
If an animal is designed by nature to have claws it ought to keep them, and if men come with quirks that they are incapable of changing, well, a certain amount of quietude and even peace can be achieved by just realizing that it's all inherent in the beast. [p. 173] Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth. Jonathan Swift
I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky. Lewis Carroll
Doug Coupland quote: "What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not..."
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? Doug Coupland
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. Aristotle
Rose Macaulay quote: "Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from..."
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass. Rose Macaulay
Nicholson Baker quote: "...no animal likes to be pecked on the anus by a duck."
...no animal likes to be pecked on the anus by a duck. Nicholson Baker
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold
Michael Chabon quote: "There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the..."
There’s nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. Michael Chabon
Aldo Leopold quote: "The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or..."
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? Aldo Leopold
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture. Michael Pollan

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