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  • I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社
  • Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

    Hurt   Humble   Animal  
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

    Men   Evil   Unjust  
    Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle
  • Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

    John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

    Religious   Peace   Men  
  • The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

  • Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  • Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

    Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)
  • The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kindness  
  • In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

    "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,
  • Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

    Moving   Animal   Silence  
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

    Peace   Nature   Sunshine  
    Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898
  • I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.

  • The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

    Dog   Nature   Greatness  
  • How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

    Heart   Garden   Desire  
    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition
  • Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

    Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press
  • It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

    Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press
  • I was fortunate enough not to grow up in Hollywood, so I feel that was a blessing. Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. My parents were smart to keep my brother and I away from that nonsense. I do live in the LA area now, but I keep my balance by hiking in the mountains with my dogs and taking trail rides every week on my horse.

    Dog   Brother   Horse  
  • We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

    Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher
  • The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

    Meaningful   Nature   Men  
    "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.
  • Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

  • I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.

    Life   Nature   Humility  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black
  • The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

    The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 2
  • It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

  • Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

    Zoos   Animal   Needs  
  • We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

    Dog   Heart   Animal  
    "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.
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