Gerard Manley Hopkins on animals

Glory be to God for dappled things

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed.

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)

• Men
• Women

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Anti-God

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

Douglas Adams1952–2001