Quotes about Animals
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it`s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.
I hope to make people realise how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must be that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.
There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.