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• That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.

  David Jeremiah

  Daughter, Father, Son

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• In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.

  Mark Doty

  Horse, Soul, Passionate

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Tragedy

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• I always felt people should live with animals.

  Dick Dale

  People, Should, Felt

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• Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

  Jared Diamond

  Land, Literature, World

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• Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.

  Jared Diamond

  Mammals, Might, Starting

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• But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

  Jared Diamond

  Children, Real, Heart

  "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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• But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

  Marguerite Henry

  Men, Rocks, Wind

  Marguerite Henry (2015). “Brighty of the Grand Canyon”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

  Francis Galton

  Men, Bystanders, Males

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.51, Routledge

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• No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Practice, Groups, Individual

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• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone

  Denise Mina

  Attitude, People, Evil

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• We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

  James Lovelock

  Mistake, Taken, Intelligent

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Cities, Creating

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• Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

  Bill Mollison

  Found, Produce, Permaculture

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Order, Knowing, Evil

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Numbers, Agriculture, Climate

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Artist, Judging, Trying

  “Flesh of your flesh” by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Dumb, Slavery, Littles

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Civilization, Dumb, Black

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Palestinians caged up like animals.

  Chuck Hagel

  Palestinian, Caged

  "Was Chuck Hagel ‘Just Plain Bad’ in His Confirmation Hearing?" by Robert Naiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2013.

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• I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that was all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.

  Jon Katz

  Dog, Odds, Facts

  "Jon Katz new book explores life after pets die". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.

  Eddie Izzard

  Desert, Want, Rats

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