Quoted in The Grove:
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~George Eliot
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
~Robert Brault
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
~Anatole France
EndQuote:
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
~Betty White
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Exercise Prompt for 05/31: river
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Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~Albert Schweitzer
Lisa: “Do we have any food that wasn’t brutally slaughtered?”
Homer: “Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.”
~Matt Groening
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Posted from the Grove
50 Collective Nouns for Groups of Animals
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/551081/collective-nouns-groups-animals
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~The Guardian: Monkey saves dying friend (1:05) reissued
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/dec/22/monkey-saves-dying-friend-train-station-india-video
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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
~Dr Christian Barnard
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
~Charles R Magel
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VIDEO:
~William Wymark Jacobs: The Monkey’s Paw (14:50) horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0nO8e0BEchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0nO8e0BEc
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~Keep Turning Left: Pachelbel’s Canon w/ starlings in murmuration (3:54) reissued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY
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~Joseph S Phillips and Misty Copeland: Swans For Relief (6:15)
32 premier ballerinas dance The Swan for COVID relief
https://www.youtube.com/user/JosephSPhillips
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An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
~Martin Buber
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
~Alice Walker
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
~Henry Beston
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MUSIC:
~Beau Davidson: The Lion Sleeps Tonight (3:29) for National Geographic
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~The Animals: We Gotta Get Out of This Place (3:24) another time, for now
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~Three Dog Night: Eli’s Coming (7:26) note the vocals
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~The Monkees: You May Just Be The One (1:58) short, sweet, cute
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Pachelbel’s Canon in D: played on a rubber chicken (2:05) just for fun
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I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
~James Cromwell
People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines … not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
~Voltaire
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
~Bradley Millar
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
~Nora Ephron
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~Robert A Heinlein
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
~Leo Rosten
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
~Author Unknown
Ducks
© Greg Thweatt
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
~Ingrid Newkirk
Dear intelligent people of the world, don’t get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now [f*@%’ing] stop torturing animals.
~Ricky Gervais
The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”
~Jeremy Bentham
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@Writers Platform
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
~Alice Walker
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Exercise Prompt: animal
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~BarTalk
the good life
give me a dog to love and touch
the wagging welcome I adore so much
give me a cat to feed and pet
ears to rub for the purr I get
show me love without design
this the love I want for mine
no tit for tat or this for that
not asking when or who and what
three animals that share a bed
two with tails, two that shed
this my dream, my house, my home
daily walks and a place to roam
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rural sunset
bulls trumpeting
cattle lowing
dogs out barking
birds skylarking
sparrows cheeping
getting sleepy
hawks high hunting
pigeons homing
children laughing
kids still playing
gardeners reaping
finished weeding
farmers milking
finished hoeing
mothers fussing
fixing dinner
clouds turn color
skyline paintings
life’s true measure
animal pleasures
workmen walking
heading home
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5-7-5 x 5 x 2
because it is there
climb the steep rocky hillside
like animals do
flowers of the field
fodder for the animals
artists feed there too
sages like eagles
see the world from their aeries
obscured by the fog
men against nature
leave droppings like animals
plastic everywhere
news grows threatening
appetites without limit
animals in charge
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monkeys at their moon
trade bananas for poontang
animal instinct
bonobos bonding
because it feels good right now
animal pleasures
ape-men dressed in suits
barter dollars for a chance
animals dating
married wedding night
more than animals waiting
delayed their mating
tired love late in life
animals graduating
try masturbating
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
~Emily Dickinson
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
~Charles M Schulz
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
~Robert Brault
I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.
~David J Beard
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Curated by: Wordgrove
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