The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

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.