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 […]
Animals Quotes
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 […]
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.
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.
