"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language"

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened"

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

"We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

"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."

"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem"