Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world but as animals they inhabit time.
When I was younger my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil and there a plant may take it up again in time sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation we shall find manifest examples of premeditation perseverance resolution and consumate artifice in order to effect their purpose.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie' I was comfortable around the dog where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.