Quotes by Animal A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him. Albert Schweitzer thinking-man animal men We need a boundless ethics which will include animals also. Albert Schweitzer philosophical animal needs Animal protection is education to the humanity. Albert Schweitzer marine ocean animal I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with Albert Schweitzer horse pain animal Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred. Albert Schweitzer sacred plant animal Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of Assisi. Thus we shall arrive that ethics is reverence for all life. This is the ethic of love widened universally. It is the ethic of Jesus now recognized as a necessity of thought...Only a universal ethic which embraces every living creature can put us in touch with the universe and the will which is there manifest. Albert Schweitzer vegetarianism animal jesus We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering. Albert Schweitzer heart animal jesus In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life. Albert Schweitzer wish animal past What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity. Albert Schweitzer flower home animal We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace. Albert Schweitzer circles compassion animal The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence. Albert Schweitzer responsibility opportunity animal To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours. Albert Schweitzer views animal men It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. Albert Schweitzer fate vegetarianism animal Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. Albert Schweitzer able animal quiet My view is that we stand up for treating the animals in a considerate way, for completely renouncing the eating of meat and also for speaking out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that was put forward so late. Albert Schweitzer views animal way My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see. Albert Schweitzer nature life-is animal To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all. Albertus Magnus rocks animal science Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon. Albertus Magnus moon animal science Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. Aldo Leopold garden land animal The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it? Aldo Leopold nature ignorance animal «23456789101112»