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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Animals, Friends

"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Animals, Humor, Perception, Absurdity

"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."

Jim Cole, American Photographer

Animals, Symbol

"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Mark Twain, American Author

Animals, Heaven, Gentleman, Hope

"Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Animals, Sadness, Soul, Humanity

"It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend."

Asa Gray, American Scientist

Animals, Plants

"I hate cats."Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant."I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Animals, Power, Regret, Today

"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."

Maria Menounos, American Actress

Animals,

"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Animals, Man

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Animals, Contempt, Dogs, Eyes

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"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

Man

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."

Magic

"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

God

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

Artist

"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

Certainty

"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."

Tomorrow

"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

Time

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human."

Eye

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."

Animals