You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with the falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn’t reserve a plot for weeds.
Animals Quotes
Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Every creature is a word of God.
Sometimes kids are so cruel to animals, especially insects. I remember one time I caught this grass- hopper, and I made him wear a little straw hat that I had made. Also, a little pair of denim overalls. And I made him hold this little tiny pitchfork. So guess what he looked like? What is […]
There are a couple of cows waiting for me. You know, when I first got back from Washington, it seemed like the cows were talking back. But now that I’ve spent some time in Crawford, they’re just cows. (Town Hall Forum on Economy, Ontario, California, Jan. 5, 2002)
When we were children we wanted to talk to animals and struggled to understand why this was impossible. Slowly we gave up the attempt as we grew into the solitary world of human adulthood, it is worth at least a wistful thought that someday the porpoise may talk to us and we to him. It […]
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it.
Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle; when the […]
