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Richard Adams Author
Animal

"Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now."

Past Animal Loss
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Animal

"There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" : but beavers and their dams are."

Lying Funny Animal
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H. G. Wells Writer
Animal

"In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse."

Animal Boys Pigs
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Maneka Gandhi Politician, Activist
Animal

"Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means that many trees saved and more environmental damage prevented. It is calculated that if these 73 million animals were to be replaced, we would need 7.3 million tractors at the cost of 2.5 lac each which would amount to an investment of 180,000 crores. In addition 2 crore, 37 lakh and 50 thousand tonnes of diesel which would mean another 57,000 crore rupees. This is how much we owe these animals, and this is what we stand to lose by killing them."

Mean Years Animal
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Muhammad Religious Leader
Animal

"If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity."

Animal Charity Plant
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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
Animal

"People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering."

Thinking Moving Animal
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Animal

"Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."

People Animal House
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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Animal

"Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be."

Home Animal Cities
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Animal

"Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal."

Animal Culture Sick
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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Animal

"The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?"

Sports Animal Hunting
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Aristotle Philosopher
Animal

"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god."

Men Self Animal
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Animal

"Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream."

Animal Humanity Cat
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Animal

"As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world"

Animal Horse Intuition
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Stella McCartney Fashion Designer
Animal

"The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion."

Years Animal Fashion
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Stella McCartney Fashion Designer
Animal

"The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me."

Animal Belief Impact
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Ivan Pavlov Physiologist
Animal

"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."

World Animal Infinite
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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Animal

"It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it."

Men Political Animal
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