Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. C. S. Lewis
It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that. Brett Favre
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants. Annie Dillard
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. Neal Barnard
Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. Italo Calvino
Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. Italo Calvino
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. Jared Diamond
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest. Christopher McDougall
I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems. Joe Namath
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. Martina Navratilova
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. Margaret Atwood
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.Charles Darwin
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.orson welles
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. Jared Diamond