Wild animal suffering Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Wild animal suffering.
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“Animal rights”
“Utilitarianism”
“Insect suffering”
“Philosophical pessimism”
“Negative utilitarianism”
“Elements, animals, humans, everything is at war.”
“[T]here were no birds or beasts of prey; none that destroyed or molested another.”
“[Predation is] a great evil that a wise or benevolent creator would have avoided.”
“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”
“Wikipedia: Wild animal suffering”
“Each strives with each, as each is pressed upon; each must provide for his own subsistence, and defend his own life.”
“What a book a Devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!”
“Wild Animal Suffering - Animal Ethics”
“Is there not a teaching of nature very apt to suggest horror and despair rather than a complacent brooding over soothing thoughts?”
“The simple facts are that both predation and starvation are painful prospects for deer, and that the lion's lot is no more enviable.”
“If we were asked, "Which one may be called the ruling passion of the wild animal?" we would without hesitation answer,—it is fear.”
“And should have been most happy, – but I saw
Too far into the sea, where every maw
The greater on the less feeds evermore. –”
“The intricacy of Ellery and aphids multiplied mindlessly into tons and light-years is more than extravagance; it is holocaust, parody, glut.”