I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
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.