Pastoral Resources

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.