Woburn Safari Park

Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don't get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us.

WHITNEY MANDEL, Orange Coast Magazine, Feb. 2006

Animals are like people because people are animals.

BARBARA T. GATES, Kindred Nature

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON & SUSAN MCCARTHY, When Elephants Weep

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

ANATOLE FRANCE, Works of Anatole France

Animals are God's creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus men owe them kindness.

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Catechism

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected.

CHIEF SEATTLE OF THE SUWAMISH TRIBE, letter to President Franklin Pierce

And God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

GENESIS 1:26

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

ALICE WALKER, attributed, The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights

Animals are such agreeable friends -- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

GEORGE ELIOT, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

MARC BEKOFF, Minding Animals

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

MAHATMA GANDHI, attributed, The Welfare of Animals: The Silent Majority

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

A. A. MILNE, Winnie-the-Pooh

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside. Whenever we humans enter their world, from our farms to the local animal shelter to the African savanna, we enter as lords of the earth bearing strange powers of terror and mercy alike.

MATTHEW SCULLY, Dominion