Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade. – Paul Watson
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals – and the lesson is not a flattering one. – Pamela Anderson
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it’s only in death that life can be regenerated. – Joel Salatin
Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them. – Isabella Rossellini
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater. – Michael Jackson
The words ‘fairy tales’ must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something ‘fairy,’ something extraordinary – fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. – Joseph Jacobs
Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable. – James Nachtwey
I’m interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them. – Kent McCord
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London. – Karen Maitland
The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man’s organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth. – Maria Montessori
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. – Louis Theroux
For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here. – Lennart Nilsson
Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we’re not too worried about industrial hunting practices. – Louis Theroux
We’re in ‘Jurassic Park’ territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we’ll have zoos for extinct animals. – Michio Kaku
Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing. – Louis Leakey
All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves. – Lynn Margulis
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus. – Kay Redfield Jamison
They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness. – Jim Cole
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can. – K. A. Applegate
My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here. – Lynda Resnick
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. – Lou Brock
I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it. – Kelly Osbourne