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  • I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. -- Joan Jett
  • Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy. -- Alison Eastwood
  • Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals. -- Doreen Virtue
  • My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals... -- Katherine Dunn
  • I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I'm feeling just a little "extra important." -- Brandi Carlile
  • Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature. -- Roberto Cavalli
  • I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. -- Pat Buckley
  • The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. -- Jacqueline Bisset
  • If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars. -- Satish Kumar
  • Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. -- H. G. Wells
  • Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. -- Edwin Way Teale
  • God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. -- Quintilian
  • If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven. -- Walter Lang
  • The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me. -- Stella McCartney
  • The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life. -- Eric Ripert
  • I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true. -- David Mixner
  • When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. -- Marguerite Duras
  • The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body. -- Saint Bernard
  • Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique in our ability to use resources on a scale and at a speed that our fellow species can't. -- Edward Burtynsky
  • We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning. -- Diane Ackerman
  • Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can. -- Joanna Lumley
  • Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. -- David Mixner
  • Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals. -- Tacitus
  • Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals. -- Tacitus
  • Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. -- Nick Nolte
  • Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress. -- Baptist de Pape
  • Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals? -- Franz Marc
  • Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people. -- Pamela Anderson
  • When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Animals shouldnâ??t be hunted and nature shouldnâ??t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind -- Charles Manson
  • War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. -- Michael Pollan
  • Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical. -- Taylor Dane
  • Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? -- Walker Percy
  • It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. -- Maria Montessori
  • I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure. -- Kiki Smith
  • Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production. -- Sharon Gannon
  • The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals -- Swami Vivekananda
  • People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. -- Jeannette Walls
  • First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals. -- Victor Hugo
  • Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. -- Dora Russell
  • Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it. -- James A. Michener
  • From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. -- Charles Darwin
  • And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns. -- Northrop Frye
  • It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore! -- Vince Staples
  • There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. -- Joseph Addison
  • The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety. -- Edward Gibbon
  • The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter. -- Voltaire
  • Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. -- Carl Linnaeus
  • We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent. -- Anita Roddick
  • All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies. -- Sallust
  • When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. -- Marcello Malpighi
  • The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. -- John Steinbeck
  • Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level. -- Gary Larson
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