Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
The old assumption that animals acted exclusively by instinct while man had a monopoly of reason is we think maintained by few people nowadays who have any knowledge at all about animals. We can only wonder that so absurd a theory could have been held for so long a time as it was when on all sides the evidence if animals power of reasoning is crushing.
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy dont harrass them dont deprive them of their happiness dont work against Gods intent. Man do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin and you with your greatness defile the earth by your apppearance on it and leave the traces of your foulness after you alas it is true of almost every one of us!
If you have men who will exclude any of Gods creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are how dependent on us trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs …[They] are an obligation put on us a responsibility we have no right to neglect nor to violate by cruelty.
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings he must practise kindness towards animals for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Were poor little lambs whove lost our way Baa! Baa! Baa! Were little black sheep whove gone astray Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree Damned from here to Eternity God ha mercy on such as we Baa! Yah! Bah!
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love What abeautiful Pussy you are ? You are ? What a beautiful Pussy you are.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. (reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
Toads are conservative animals I think and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago well before the end of October I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised naturally when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there in some annoyance sat at toad.
Animals are reliable many full of love true in their affections predictable in their actions grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
From thence the beasts be brought in killed and clean washed by the hands of their bondsmen. For they permit not their free citizens to accustom themselves to the killing of beasts through the use whereof they think clemency the gentlest affection of our nature by little and little to decay and perish.
Never feed the foxes! What does that mean? Breaking commandments is like feeding foxes. In England where we live my wife and I had heard that foxes were right in town. We wanted to see a fox. A neighbor told us that if we left food for the foxes we probably would see one. Our butcher gave us some bones. Each night we would place some bones out in the backyard. Soon a fox came to eat. Then a few more. Now we have at least five foxes racing through our flower garden digging up the lawn and leaving a shamble every night sort of like a furry Jurassic Park. What started out as a curiosity is now a problem and sin is much the same. An indiscretion can begin a process that can make a mess of a whole life. Remember if you dont start feeding the foxes they will never tear up your yard. If you avoid making the seemingly small and harmless mistakes your life will be free of many larger problems later on.
What with our hooks snares nets and dogs we are at war with all living creatures and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and in the case of the hunter must keep a tangible record of his courage.
Animals have these advantages over man: They never hear the clock strike they die without any idea of death they have no theologians to instruct them their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies their funerals cost them nothing and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
A young man came before the Rasul with a carpet and said O Rasul! I passed through a wood and heard the voices of young birds; and I took and put them into my carpet; and their mother came fluttering around my head and I uncovered the young and the mother fell down upon them then I wrapped them up in my carpet; and there are the young which I have. Then the Rasul said Put them down. And when he did so their mother joined them: and Muhammad said Do you wonder at the affection of the mother towards her young? I swear by Him who hath sent me verily God is more loving to His creatures than the mother to these young birds. Return them to the place from which ye took them and let their mother be with them.
The good life is the healthful life the merry life. Life is health joy laughter.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is Amusing in itself.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
My favorite animal is steak.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are an imitation of fighting.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
The old assumption that animals acted exclusively by instinct while man had a monopoly of reason is we think maintained by few people nowadays who have any knowledge at all about animals. We can only wonder that so absurd a theory could have been held for so long a time as it was when on all sides the evidence if animals power of reasoning is crushing.
TAIL n. The part of an animals spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
Odd things: animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal.
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy dont harrass them dont deprive them of their happiness dont work against Gods intent. Man do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin and you with your greatness defile the earth by your apppearance on it and leave the traces of your foulness after you alas it is true of almost every one of us!
Every creature is a word of God.
If you have men who will exclude any of Gods creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
The lion is not so fierce as painted.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
You can muffle the drum and you can loosen the strings of the lyre but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are how dependent on us trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs …[They] are an obligation put on us a responsibility we have no right to neglect nor to violate by cruelty.
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings he must practise kindness towards animals for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Were poor little lambs whove lost our way Baa! Baa! Baa! Were little black sheep whove gone astray Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree Damned from here to Eternity God ha mercy on such as we Baa! Yah! Bah!
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals in an interview.
I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love What abeautiful Pussy you are ? You are ? What a beautiful Pussy you are.
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. (reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
Just because an animal is large it doesnt mean he doesnt want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Toads are conservative animals I think and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago well before the end of October I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised naturally when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there in some annoyance sat at toad.
Animals are reliable many full of love true in their affections predictable in their actions grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
From thence the beasts be brought in killed and clean washed by the hands of their bondsmen. For they permit not their free citizens to accustom themselves to the killing of beasts through the use whereof they think clemency the gentlest affection of our nature by little and little to decay and perish.
Never feed the foxes! What does that mean? Breaking commandments is like feeding foxes. In England where we live my wife and I had heard that foxes were right in town. We wanted to see a fox. A neighbor told us that if we left food for the foxes we probably would see one. Our butcher gave us some bones. Each night we would place some bones out in the backyard. Soon a fox came to eat. Then a few more. Now we have at least five foxes racing through our flower garden digging up the lawn and leaving a shamble every night sort of like a furry Jurassic Park. What started out as a curiosity is now a problem and sin is much the same. An indiscretion can begin a process that can make a mess of a whole life. Remember if you dont start feeding the foxes they will never tear up your yard. If you avoid making the seemingly small and harmless mistakes your life will be free of many larger problems later on.
People buy products for what they can do not for what they are.
What with our hooks snares nets and dogs we are at war with all living creatures and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
If someone wants a sheep then that means that he exists.
The behaviour of men to the lower animals and their behaviour to each other bear a constant relationship.
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and in the case of the hunter must keep a tangible record of his courage.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
It is just like mans vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Animals have these advantages over man: They never hear the clock strike they die without any idea of death they have no theologians to instruct them their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies their funerals cost them nothing and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
I think I could turn and live with animals they are so placid and self-contained I stand and look at them long and long.
Every animal knows far more than you do.
Even snakes are afraid of snakes.
Every animal knows more than you do.
Yeah I think its an absolute disaster that Australia the government allowed kangaroo culling.
A young man came before the Rasul with a carpet and said O Rasul! I passed through a wood and heard the voices of young birds; and I took and put them into my carpet; and their mother came fluttering around my head and I uncovered the young and the mother fell down upon them then I wrapped them up in my carpet; and there are the young which I have. Then the Rasul said Put them down. And when he did so their mother joined them: and Muhammad said Do you wonder at the affection of the mother towards her young? I swear by Him who hath sent me verily God is more loving to His creatures than the mother to these young birds. Return them to the place from which ye took them and let their mother be with them.