"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
— Albert Einstein
"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
— Edgar Allan Poe
"Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded..."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart)
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
— Albert Einstein
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
"Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest." ~Bion, "Water and Land Animals," Plutarch
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”—George Bernard Shaw
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters"
— Albert Einstein
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
“Have you ever felt like you where invisible? No matter how you cried out your loneliness and pain no one cared, you where not even important enough to be noticed, except perhaps as 'that damn dog is barking next door again.'”—Nan Sea Love
"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future." ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
"Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature." ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius."
“The Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”—Chief Seattle
“When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.”—Marv Levy
"He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
— Albert Einstein
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