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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.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually replicate in-bred qualities of human nature which create those animal spirits.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.