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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
Chief Luther Standing Bear - 1834 -1908
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Theodore Roosevelt
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
David Attenborough
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young
Jim Samuels
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.
Marc Chagall
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think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
Walt Whitman
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
Hippocrates
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Theophile Gautier
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse.
Bedouin Legend
We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.
John Steinbeck
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
(I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov 1920-1992
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx 1890-1977
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
The World is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
Buy land. They've stopped making it.
Mark Twain 1835-1920
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W.C.Fields 1880-1946
Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes. Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish.
William Carlos Williams
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Mark Twain 1835-1920
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Every individual counts. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Jane Goodall
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanual Kant
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Oscar Wilde
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno 335 BC-264 BC
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells 1866-1946
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's another thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Jeff Stilson
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than beings, because they know, but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
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