Pastoral Resources

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

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

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids.

First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.