Michal Dziekan

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten..."

- Thomas Szasz

Leonard Peng

"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children."

- Michael Morpurgo

 

Douglas Smith

"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land."

- Sitting Bull

Maria Corte Maidagan

"With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy."

- Jeanette Winterson

Ricardo Martinez

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

- Samuel Butler

David Johnson

"On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity."

- April Gornik

 

Piotr Jablonski

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

- George Orwell

Charles Chaisson

"Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder..."

- James Ransone

Rudy Gutierrez

"I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal."

- Rita Rudner

James Bennett

"Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal..."

- Christopher McDougall

 

Mark Summers

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."

- Martin Buber

Tim Bower

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."

- Mikhail Bakunin

Gregory Manchess

"In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you."

- Chris Adami

 

Niklas Asker

"Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known."

- Jon Katz

Bill Sanderson

"I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind."

- Zach Braff

 

Michal Dziekan

"I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits."

- Alan Greenspan

Mark Elliott

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

Goni Montes

"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning."

- Peter York

Edward Kinsella III

"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."

- Mark Twain

 

David Palumbo

"Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild..."

- Aristotle

Oscar Ramos

"I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Paul Cox

"Cows are gentle, interesting animals."

- Ingrid Newkirk

Kent Barton

"A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden."

- Robert Southey

Chris Gall

"When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

John Mattos

"The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body."

- Saint Bernard

Tran Nguyen

"Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated."

- Frans de Waal

Jason Seiler

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."

- Elias Canetti

Dongyun Lee

"It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal."

- Vin Diesel

Guy Stauber

"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

- Eric Hoffer