Animal Trapping Quotes

Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat. ~ Bill Nye

A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree. ~ Gretel Ehrlich

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist. ~ Gene Pitney

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands ... but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices. ~ Tom Regan

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past. ~ Deepak Chopra

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ~ Rue McClanahan

Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored ~ Alice Walker

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it, ~ Ingrid Newkirk

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal. ~ Hugh MacLennan

I've always been an animal lover my entire life. ~ Jillian Hervey

It's animal by animal that you save a species. ~ Diane Ackerman

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. ~ James Stewart

I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge.
Oh yes, I can hear you.
But I'm not coming out. ~ Neil Gaiman

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite. ~ Will Hazlitt

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE. ~ George Orwell

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal. ~ Roger Rosenblatt

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal. ~ Carlos Fuentes

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~ Murray Banks

During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary ~ Carl Jung

For me the two biggest issues are climate change and animal welfare/animal agriculture. And oddly enough animal agriculture is such a contributor to climate change. According to the United Nations, 25% of climate change comes from animal agriculture, so every car, bus, boat, truck, airplane combined has less CO2 and methane emissions than animal agriculture. ~ Moby

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences ... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights ... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved. ~ Gary L. Francione

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. ~ Paul Theroux

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time. ~ Lorenz Oken

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified. ~ Jerry Vlasak

For an animal to attack you, you must smell or look either dangerous, or delicious, or at least nutritious. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?
A: You already are an animal. ~ Douglas Coupland

No animal admires another animal. ~ Blaise Pascal

The more spiritually immature you are, the more likely you are to kill an animal or a plant unnecessarily. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. ~ Rita Mae Brown

The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare ... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights. ~ Gary L. Francione

She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag,
and right then and there, he fell in love.
-Animal Magnetism ~ Jill Shalvis

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. ~ W.S. Gilbert

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. ~ Ingrid Newkirk

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form ~ The Cruxshadows

I'm in love with my animal friends. ~ Timothy Treadwell

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal. ~ Vin Diesel

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. ~ Alexander Graham Bell

Out there is South Dakota," Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. ~ Veronica Roth

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men ~ William Inge

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated. ~ Gautama Buddha

When you look a wild animal in the eye, it's like catching a glimpse into the soul of nature itself ~ Paul Oxton

If an animal has any rights at all, it's got the right not to be eaten. ~ Gary L. Francione

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass. ~ Steven Kotler

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug? ~ Tom Wolfe

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life. ~ George Santayana

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. ~ Cesar Chavez

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products. ~ Leona Lewis

He said that man's heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe. ~ Mark Twain

An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth. ~ Sanober Khan

The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on
and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter ... ~ H. Jay Dinshah

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. ~ Leon Kass

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom. ~ David Duchovny

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice. ~ C.S. Lewis

Men! The only animal in the world to fear. ~ D.H. Lawrence

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. ~ Cleveland Amory

It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal. ~ Lawrence Okafor

We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. ~ Wayne Pacelle

Societies that lack respect for animals eventually lose respect for human beings. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope. ~ Lionel Tiger

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious. ~ Terence McKenna

I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me ... they are my children. ~ Paris Hilton

A prison for animals who committed no crimes is what a zoo is." - On Zoos ~ Lamine Pearlheart

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip. ~ Steve Toltz

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal. ~ Tom Stoppard

Those that would say Satanist would like to kill animal's, sacrifice animals I would say they would make ideal animal sacrifices, I love animals and animals have always been part of me. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting - to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing ~ Michael Pollan

An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do. ~ Steven Spielberg

People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working person you'll ever know. ~ Miley Cyrus

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business. ~ George Clooney

There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal ... [even if] the animal were a human being. ~ Peter Singer

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal. ~ George Ayittey

I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be. ~ Daniel Dennett

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world. ~ Glenn Close

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials ~ Florence King

Corporations, government entities and media conglomerates-fear the ideology of an animal liberationist could catch hold and topple them from their golden thrones, reducing their animal product profits. ~ Charlotte Laws

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal. ~ E.F. Schumacher

The relationship between human and animal is wholly symbiotic. The person needs the animal for comfort and companionship, and the animal needs the love and caring of the human. It is a classic "win-win" situation. It sounds simple - and it is. That is why it works so well. In most cases, it will be remarkably spiritually uplifting to both human and animal. ~ Ken Wahl

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. ~ Karl Marx

Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza. ~ Louise Fresco

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers? ~ Joseph Wood Krutch

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. ~ Lance Morrow

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

When you look at a strange animal, that animal also thinks that a strange animal is looking at it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On what reasonable grounds would sincere, informed environmentalists refuse to join animal advocates in a campaign to protect increasingly threatened fish populations from the snapping teeth of humanity? ~ Lisa Kemmerer

Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself! ~ Andy Andrews

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. ~ Emile M. Cioran

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. ~ Jack Hanna

I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji. ~ Richard O'Barry

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our animal friends' non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. ~ D.H. Lawrence

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. ~ Albert Schweitzer

The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans. ~ Konrad Lorenz

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals. ~ Gary L. Francione

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals. ~ John Stuart Mill

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes. ~ Kim Gordon

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong. ~ George Bernard Shaw