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When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.
Jack London1876–1916The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter VIIIn context
- Nature
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)
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
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essays, Book II, Ch. 12, Apology for Raimond Sebond
Your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Economics
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
Desmond Morris1928–2026The Naked Ape (1967), Introduction, p. 9
- Science
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
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash1902–1971“A Dog’s Best Friend Is His Illiteracy” in The Private Dining Room (1953)
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
Ogden Nash1902–1971Free Wheeling (1931), “The Cow”.
- Comedy
And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we’re gonna keep it.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Checkers speech (1952)
- Politics
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell1903–1950Animal Farm (1945)
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Black Cat (1843)
- Love
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709)
- Friendship
I am his Highness’ Dog at Kew;
Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?
Alexander Pope1688–1744“Epigram. Engraved on the Collar of a Dog, which I gave to His Royal Highness” (1738)
- Clever Jabs
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)