Sunday, October 9, 2016

Animals

Animals

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi

No where else on Earth is God’s artistry more apparent than in the animal kingdom
- De Stafano

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance.  There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.
- John Henry Newman

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
Aldo Leopold

The love for all living creatures is the most notable attribute of man.
- Charles Darwin

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
Aldo Leopol

Is it my soul that soars with them in religious rapture, or just ornithological euphoria?
They are the crescendo's end, the peak of perfection, and avian art-form.
GOB 100 - Birding (Grumpy Old Birder's podcast)

The difference between a beginning birder and an experienced one is that beginning birders having misidentified few birds, Experienced birders have misidentified thousands. 
- Pete Dunne.

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