“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race. The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Source: Selective Compassion
“When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
– Minnie Aumonier, writer
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
– Doctor Seuss
‘They ask us to be brave for them, to be clear for them, and I see no other acceptable choice but to advocate veganism.’
~ Vincent J Guihan
“Animals, the earth, and humans
all stand on Common Ground.
What hurts one, hurts the others.
What heals and celebrates, does so for all.”
-NEAVS President Theodora Capaldo, EdD
I have always felt we speak too much about human beings. This world is crowded with humans, but also with animals, birds, fish, and insects. They were here before we were and they will still be here should the day come when there are no more human beings.
~ Günter Grass (1927–2015), The Art of Fiction no. 124, interviewed by Elizabeth Gaffney in “The Paris Review” no. 119 (Summer 1991). (via theparisreview)
via Booklover.
‘I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.’
~ John Feldmann, Goldfinger
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity…and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
—William Blake