Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
有想过宠物怎么看我们吗？我的意思是，当我们从杂货店带回许多迷人的东西——鸡，猪，半头牛。它们一定会认为我们是地球上最伟大的猎手。
~Anne Tyler（1941- ）美国小说家
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
动物是这样令人愉快的朋友——它们不提问，也不批评。
~George Eliot（1819-1880）英国小说家
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
当你和一个与宠物作伴的人结婚，你在某种程度上会发疯。
~Nora Ephron（1941- ）美国导演、剧作家
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
动物的眼睛有一种力量，能说一种伟大的语言。
~Martin Buber（1878-1965）德国犹太教作家
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. 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 muck 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.
有一个重要而流行的事实就是事情并不总是它所看起来的那样。比如说，在某星球——地球上，人总是认为他比海豚聪明，因为他取得了这么大的成就——车轮，纽约，战争，等等——而所有的海豚所做的所有的事情不过是在水里玩过家家。但是相反，海豚一直相信它们要比人聪明的多——因为完全相同的原因。
~Douglas Adams（1952-2001）
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
人是排名最高的动物，至少在所有交回调查问卷的动物中间。
~Robert Brault
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
许多人会跟动物说话……但很少人会去听……这就是问题
~Benjamin Hoff（1946- ）
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
动物相对人有这些优点：它们从来听不到钟声，它们死时没有任何对死的想法，它们没有宗教来引导它们，它们的最后时光不会被不受欢迎、使人不快的仪式打扰，它们的葬礼不花一分钱，而且没有人开始在他们的遗嘱上提起诉讼打官司。
~Voltaire（1694-1778）法国启蒙运动领袖
[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts.
他不会相信他的狗有人的感觉，但是当你伤害到他的昆虫的时候他一定要让你知道。
~Robert Brault
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
经常有这样的事，一个人对猫或狗要比对人更为仁慈。
~Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862）美国思想家
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
我们的完美搭档永远不会少于四条腿。
~Colette（1873-1954）法国作家
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back.
大部分宠物具有那么多的和人类相似的特点和情绪，以至于让我们经常忘记它们不懂英语，于是当我们对它们说话而它们没有任何回应的时候就会觉得受到冷落。
~Stephenie Geist
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.
我主张动物要有权利，其中一个重要权利就是轻轻磨蹭人的手。
~Robert Brault
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
我研究了所谓的低等动物的特点和习性，然后将它们和人的特点和习性进行了对比。我发现结果让我脸红。
~Mark Twain（1835-1910）
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
我喜欢猪。狗仰视我们。猫轻视我们。猪却能平等对待我们。
~Winston Churchill（1874-1965）英国政治家
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
所有的动物都有一种责任感，而人高傲的称之为本能。
~Robert Brault
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
如果所有的动物都灭绝，人也会在精神的巨大孤寂中死去，因为发生在动物身上的事也会发生在人身上。所有的事情都是联系着的。任何降临在地球上的事也会降临在地球之子的身上。
~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
要侮辱某个人我们会叫他“野兽”。因为故意的残忍和天性，叫他“人类”可能是更大的侮辱。
~Isaac Asimov（1920-1992）美国生物化学家、作家
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