In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen. – Theo Jansen
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. – William Henry Hudson
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony ‘educational’ permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated. – Susan Orlean
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader’s disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don’t have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. – Yann Martel
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it’s a status symbol. That doesn’t register for me; I just see dead animals. – Tommy Lee
I’m such a weirdo. I’m animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals. – Sheridan Smith
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them. – Sara Gruen
When you see the horrible conditions that these animals live in, you wonder why operators of puppy mills have gone undetected for so long. – Tony Cardenas
You can’t really call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still consuming animals. You just can’t. – Suzy Amis
Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. – Tippi Hedren
Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. – William Greider
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. – Stanislav Grof
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather’s farm, and we didn’t torture the animals, and we didn’t feed them stuff we wouldn’t eat. – Sandra Lerner
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. – Thomas Love Peacock
The thing about animals is that they don’t judge you. They accept you the way you are. – Wendy O. Williams
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. – Walter Gilbert
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. – W. H. Auden
I always compare human beings to animals. It’s a nice way to figure out who they are. – Vincent Cassel
I don’t want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. – Steve Wynn
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. – Tracy Chapman
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. – Satish Kumar
The only animals I’m not comfortable with are parrots, but I’m learning as I go. I’m getting better and better at ’em. I really am. – Steve Irwin