Wonderful quotations about animals

Date:   7/2/2006 4:41:01 PM ( 18 y ago)

There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge.... and which are turned away... -- Unknown

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. -- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way" -- John Muir

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. -- Samuel Butler

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. -- Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907

Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God. If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature, even a caterpillar, I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of God is every creature.
--Meister Eckhardt

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. -- Phil Donahue, US TV talk show host

Blessing animals is a reminder that God is bigger than our own hearts, and that God’s purposes take-in all creatures. We bless them today to recognise their importance in their own right—that their being and their end is God’s to give and part of God’s plan. Blessing animals is a sign of humility and respect on our part, and an admission that humans aren’t the centre of everything. --Dr. Scott Cowdell

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. --Henry David Thoreau

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion? -- Marianne Moore

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. " -- Bradley Millar


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


Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. -- George Eliot

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse." -- Henry David Thoreau

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. -- St. Francis of Assisi

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. -- Abraham Lincoln

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. -- Alfred A. Montapert



 

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