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Animals Quotes
"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"
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"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves."
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"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."
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"The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat."
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"When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?"
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"Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy."
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"Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal."
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"They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness."
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"When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether."
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"I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals."
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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them."
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"Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection."
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"The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation."
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"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."
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"So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper."
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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
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"Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies."
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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
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"I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day."
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"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out."
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"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
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"Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans."
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"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."
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"I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them."
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"I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do."
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"Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild."
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"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
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"Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated."
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"Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors."
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"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."
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"I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand."
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