Top 1200 Animal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

I was always an animal lover. Even back in school and college, an animal in need of help was my responsibility.

North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there, the innovative life-saving programs they have, and the mission to rescue, nurture, and adopt but also for the hard work and dedication this organization has to the cause. They have saved over one million lives since their inception, and they are the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless...

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

For years, I have traveled all around the country to promote animal welfare, fighting for policies that will finally eliminate unnecessary animal suffering.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals are sensory based thinkers and I wrote about this in my book, Animals in Translation. That an animal's memory is not in words, they've got to be in pictures - it's very detailed so let's say the animal gets afraid of something - they'll get afraid of something that they're looking at or hearing, the moment the bad thing happens.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

As animal rights activists, we have the duty to fight for the animal to live, not die.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

The particular province of the shaman is the province of soul, that which feeds our embodied life, or fails to feed it. From a shamanic point of view, the relationship with animal allies, or animals that show themselves in animal forms, is a vital part of living. We're fully embodied, with full access to our natural soul energy.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.