Animals

““its evenings lit by glow-worms, its mysterious nights broken by the shrieks of owls””

“I have been a vegetarian for 75 years—and I think I am a pretty good advertisement for it.”

“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size.”

“One thing that is good about a university is that you get to work on different things: motion picture restoration in the morning, and tracking lobsters at the bottom of the ocean in the afternoon.”

“leaving them abandoned like beasts”

“I read in America where they were using electrified wire to hold stock.”

“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”

“সাঁতার কাটতে কাটতে চোখে পড়ল একটা কচ্ছপ পাশ দিয়ে ভেসে যাচ্ছে। মনে হয়েছিল ওটার পিঠে চেপে চলে যাই।”

“In England, racehorses received better treatment than we did.”

“The power of man over animal life, in producing whatever varieties of form he pleases, is enormously great.”

“It was all started by a mouse.”

“Les animaux sont les précepteurs des hommes dans mon ouvrage.”

““老鸦似措大，饥寒则吟。” — “A crow resembles a poor scholar: when hungry and cold, it sings.””

“Não! Um gaúcho de alma não abandona assim o seu cavalo: antes mata-o, como amigo que não emporcalha o seu amigo!”

“This is not your nest, fly away.”

“Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.”

“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”

“The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.”