Animals Quotes - Page 5

It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

the world is better without
them.

only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.

I drink to them and with
them.

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology; when the sight of another species in unthinkable hosts brought fears or hopes no longer applicable.

We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention, only now beginning to approach methods of perception that the whales have always owned as their birthright.

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Every great day has a story and a song!

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

Monsters are beasts that cannot be tamed.

Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.

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

Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential.

The inner encounters I have with animals - and will be teaching you to have - are exchanges of meaning.

Animals remind us that all beings who walk, stand, swim, crawl, or fly are radiant, mysterious, and unique expressions of the Source. Every species, every culture, has it’s own genius.