"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Winston Churchill
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars, and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was much about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams in <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>
"Curiously enough, the dolphins had long known of the impending destruction of the planet Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind of the danger; but most of their commications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for tidbits, so they eventually gave up and left the Earth by their own means shortly before the Vogons arrived." - Douglas Adams in <i>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</i>
"Christmas! Christmas dinner, yeah. Dinner means death. Death means carnage! Christmas means carnage!" - Ferdinand the duck in <i>Babe</i>
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mohatma Gandhi
"I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food." - Bruce in <i>Finding Nemo</i>
"Hey there, Mr. Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do?...Just keep swimming." - Dory in <i>Finding Nemo</i>
"This is the ocean, silly, we're not the only two in here." - Dory in <i>Finding Nemo</i>
"All drains lead to the ocean." - Gill in <i>Finding Nemo</i>
"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed." - Theodore Roosevelt
"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
"There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet." - Brooke Medicine Eagle
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairie and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced." - Theodore Roosevelt
"One of our sweetest, loudest songsters is the meadow-lark...the plains air seems to give it a voice, and it will perch on the top of a bush or tree and sing for hours in rich, bubbling tones." - Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not reasonable that our human art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. Yet wherever her purity shines forth, she wonderfully puts to shame our vain and frivolous attempts." - Michel de Montaigne
"The voice of the dolphin in air is like that of the human, in that they can pronounce vowels, and combinations of vowels" - Aristotle
"I have met with a story, which, although authenticated by reliable evidence, looks very like a fable..." - Pliny the Younger
"Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet." - Buckminster Fuller
"Dolphins have new understandings that seem to lie just beyond our present knowledge. There may be a common thread of consciousness between man and dolphin." - Joan McIntyre
"To speak of lower animals is both arrogant and blasphemous. All traditional peoples have viewed animals as messengers and mediators of the divine which is a lesson we need to relearn - that consciousness takes many forms beyond human." - Larry Dossey, M.D. in <i>Healing Beyond the Body</i>
"The elephant intrigues me so much, its strength and dignity, its silent movement and suddent trumpeting fury, the humor of its young, the threatening beaty of its tusks, the delicate touch of its trunk, and the intelligent look in its wise old eye -- all these enthralled me." - George Adamson
"The shape of an African elephant's ear is the shape of Africa. The shape of an Indian elephant's ear is the shape of India...As if Nature had kept an ear to the ground when listening to the elephants territorial requests." - Heathcote Williams
"It was a ceremony, a funeral of sorts. A complex and intricate ritual conducted by elephants in honor of their fallen brother. The experience will be with me forever as a constant reminder of the magnificence, intelligence, and compassion of elephants." - Kyle Owens
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau