"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
- Roger Caras
"A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats."
- Mason Cooley
"Nature never breaks her own laws."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."
- Albert Einstein
"If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
- Will Cuppy
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
- Andrew A. Rooney
" I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
- Robert Redford
"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
- C. S. Lewis
"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
- Margaret Mead
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
- Ansel Adams
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer
"I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings."
- Dick Van Patten
"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."
- E.O. Wilson
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
- Stewart Udall
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote."
- Paul Harvey
"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
- Abraham Lincoln
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
- Chief Seattle
"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life."
- James Cromwell
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
- Thornton Wilder
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."
- Charles Lindbergh
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
- Henry David Thoreau
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir
"My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife."
- Steve Irwin
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal
"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."
- Barry Commoner
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
- Paul McCartney
"This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
- Barack Obama
"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."
- Jules Verne
"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
- Gaylord Nelson
"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans."
- Jim Fowler
"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
- Peter Benchley
"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
- Robert L. Stevenson
"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
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
- Michael Pollan
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