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" They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them. "

- Gaston Leroux, the Phantom of the Opera

" We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. "

- Arthur C. Clarke (via mad-as-a-marine-biologist)

" When attacked, nature does not defend. Only takes revenge. "

- Albert Einstein (via ecocides)

" There’s a space between us and wildlife, and we haven’t learned to respect that space. "

- Ric O’Barry

" Success is perseverence through failure, and it is through failure that I will persevere to become the person I want to be. "

- Michael Aranda

" We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. "

- William Ralph Inge (via aalmonds)

" It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. "

- Mark Twain

" I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it’s something that I can’t help. "

- Steve Irwin

" If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands. "

- Douglas Adams

" If animals believed in God, the Devil would look like a human being. "

- Sue Coe (via invictus-muse)

" I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love. I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s beautiful. "

- Unknown  (via de-licacy)

(Source: slekes)

" Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. "

- James Anthony Froude 

" If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. "

- James Herriot

" I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other. "

- Taylor Caldwell
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