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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 19, 2008 23:56:43 GMT -4
Ingrid is one, too.
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Post by pinky on Jun 20, 2008 15:28:45 GMT -4
Funny!!
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Jun 20, 2008 20:50:32 GMT -4
I have her with chickens, or cows, also!
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Post by glitchunter on Jun 20, 2008 23:00:35 GMT -4
"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before." ~ Robert Lynd
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~ Martin Buber
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier
"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat" ~ Warren Eckstein
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Post by pinky on Jun 20, 2008 23:16:55 GMT -4
The first of these is one of my all-time favorites. I wonder why I never thought to post it. Thanks, Glitch.
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Post by Dezzi on Jun 23, 2008 16:05:51 GMT -4
He is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him. He is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.
-William Shakespeare (Henry V: Act 3 scene vii)
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Post by pinky on Aug 9, 2008 15:05:23 GMT -4
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. (source unknown--DF??)
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Post by pinky on Aug 9, 2008 15:08:44 GMT -4
Conscience in its highest development bids men do what is for the happiness of their fellow-creatures.--Edward Byron Nicholson, The Rights of an Animal, 1879
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 9, 2008 18:17:42 GMT -4
Maybe I said it!! I will check the source later. Please change the News Fader as the spirit moves you.
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Post by pinky on Aug 29, 2008 21:14:38 GMT -4
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.--Mark Twain
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Post by pinky on Oct 3, 2008 16:16:31 GMT -4
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. --Martin Buber
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Post by pinky on Oct 3, 2008 16:24:13 GMT -4
The dog is the only being that loves you more than you love yourself.--Fritz von Unruh, German Expressionist dramatist, poet, and novelist (1885-1970)
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Oct 3, 2008 19:08:57 GMT -4
The dog never met Bill Clinton.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Oct 3, 2008 20:22:23 GMT -4
Those are good quotes Robin; I like the dog one cause it's true.
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Post by pinky on Nov 5, 2008 21:55:15 GMT -4
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)
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