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Factory farming of animals will be one of the things we look back on as a relic of a less-evolved age.
Natalie Portmanborn 1981“Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan”, The Huffington Post (October 2009)
It is very dangerous to ignore the suffering of any sentient being.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Interview in Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992, pp. 20-21.
- Morality
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Comedy
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Nature
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)
- Comedy
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
When I’m gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.
Brian Mayborn 1947Interview with The Sunday Times, quoted in “Brian May Converts Estate Into Wildlife Refuge”, in Contactmusic.com (9 July 2012)
I like having a puppy that’s a bulldog, ‘cause it’s like having a baby that is also a grandma.
John Mulaneyborn 1982The Comeback Kid (2015)
- Comedy
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIIn context
Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle⁠—will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Dancing
“Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Treasure Island (1883), Part Two: The Sea-cook, Chapter XIn context
- Money
Isn’t it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIn context
- Food
We be of one blood, ye and I
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa’s HuntingIn context
- Friendship
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIIn context
- Poetry
“People come⁠—they stay for a while, they flourish, they build⁠—and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I’ve been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be.”
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IVIn context
- History
- Time