"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."

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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."

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"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"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

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"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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

Mark Twain, American Author

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Chris Murray, Irish Author

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Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets."

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"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."

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"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."

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"The sea is the universal sewer."

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"The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult."

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"No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity."

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"The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat."

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"If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work."

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