Animals In Nature Quotes:

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

source: "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Man And Dog, Inspirational Animal

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Nature, Animal, Pet, Wildlife And Nature, Wildlife Animals

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Nature, Philosophical, Beautiful Nature, Marvelous Things

We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Brother, Horse, Flower, Seattle, Web Of Life

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

topic: Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Love, Life, Nature, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Religious, Peace, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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.

- Alice Walker

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Animal, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Compassion, Human Will, Inspirational Animal

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.

- John Muir

source: Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

topic: Peace, Nature, Sunshine, Beautiful Nature, Journeys And Paths

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Pain, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

- Henry Beston

source: 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

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, Needs, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

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.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Hurt, Humble, Firsts, Animal Welfare, Nature And Animals

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Dog, Nature, Greatness, Animal Cruelty, Plants And Animals

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Life, Peace, Honesty, Animal Cruelty, Non Violence

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

- Henry Beston

source: 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

topic: Animal, Caught, Life And Time, Incompleteness, Human Will

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

source: Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

topic: Heart, Men, Animal, Kindness To Animals, Dealings

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

- Albert Einstein

source: 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

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

- Charles Darwin

source: The Mind of Primitive Man preface (1938)

topic: Pain, Animal, Men, Joy And Pain, Nature And Animals

"One impulse from a vernal wood

- William Wordsworth

topic: Nature, Woods, Impulse, Man And Nature, Nature Of Man

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal

topic: Nature, Doe, Inspirational Earth, One With Nature, Nature And Life

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

- John Muir

topic: Autumn, Environmental, Care, Beautiful Nature, National Parks

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.906, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy, Dog Rescue, Saving Animals

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

- Muhammad

topic: Animal, Done, Deeds, Animal Cruelty, Compassion Towards Animals

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

- Milan Kundera

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Letting Go, Dog, Stress, Bulldogs, Inspirational Dog

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.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Animal, Moral Ethics, Vegan Health

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

- Rachel Carson

source: "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

topic: Animal, Vegetarianism, World, Animal Cruelty, Cruel World

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

- Martin Luther

topic: Nature, Tree, Earth Day, Natural Gifts, Greenery

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

source: John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

topic: Nature, Educational, Garden, Spiritual Nature, One With Nature

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Friendship, Food, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

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

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

source: John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Adventure, Garden, Wildness, National Parks

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

topic: Peace, Nature, Inspiration, Sense Of Responsibility, Nature And Animals

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

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.

- Michael J. Fox

topic: Zoos, Animal, Needs, Wild Animal, Nature And Animals

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

topic: Freedom, Kindness, Compassion, Living Creatures, Animal Testing

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

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.

- Maimonides

topic: Nature, Men, Sake, Nature Of Man, Nature And Animals

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Peace, Natural Gifts, Natural Things

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

- Ansel Adams

source: "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

topic: Nature, Fighting, Government, Inspirational Environmental, Our Planet

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.114, A&C Black

topic: Life, Nature, Humility, Nature And Life, Earth And Nature