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Letter "A" » Animals
«Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?»
«We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.»
«Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies»
Author: James Stephens
(Poet)
| About:
Animals,
Enemies,
Women
| Keywords:
birds, heads, provision, surrounded, turning
«We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Animals,
Earth,
Future
| Keywords:
Among the, Among the Living, die away, discontent, fearing, take in, unable, uniquely, worrying
«When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.»
«When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Animals,
Cats
| Keywords:
cats, get even, In the Mood, mood, sitting, sittings
«When the cats away, the mice will play!»
«When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Animals,
Children,
Death and dying,
Possibility
| Keywords:
kid, killed, movie, Western, westerns, wondered
«When the goose honk high, fair weather; when the goose honks low, foul weather»
«What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Animals
| Keywords:
admirable, Angel, Animal World, apprehension, apprehensions, faculty, paragon, paragons, piece of work, The Admirable
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