Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals. – Marvin Harris
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it’s an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. – Diane von Furstenberg
I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals. – David Roberts
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. – Nick Clooney
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? – George Bernard Shaw
In Yellowstone National Park, there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed. – Natalie Jeremijenko
Over 55% of all shots using animals in ‘The Hobbit’ are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves. – Peter Jackson
I love children. I’d prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I’m just really into beings who are at ease with themselves. – Meshell Ndegeocello
First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I’d just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead. – Paris Hilton
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether. – Matthew Fox
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us. – Malcolm de Chazal
Several countries – among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden – ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy. – Peter Singer
If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals. – Peter Singer
Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders. – Nick Clooney
It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa
There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals’ backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. – Natalie Imbruglia
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. – Peter Singer