Creatures Of The Earth Quotes:

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

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 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

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

source: Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

topic: Earth, Guests, Forgotten, Inspirational Environmental, Wild Creatures

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

- Luther Standing Bear

source: Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.193, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Real, Animal, Sky, Indian Wisdom, Lakota

The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.

- David Geffen

topic: Nature, Responsibility, Special, Jewish Tradition, Creatures Of The Earth

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

- John Hodgman

topic: Thinking, Earth, Busy, Creatures Of The Earth

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

- Louise Hay

topic: Animal, Special, Balance, Special Relationship, Creatures Of The Earth

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

- Ugo Betti

topic: Men, Order, Insecurity, Creatures Of The Earth, Ascending

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority ...

- Ouida

topic: Men, Religion, Earth, Creatures Of The Earth