"In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." - Baba Dioum, Senegal

"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. ...I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." - Mahatma Gandhi - Hindu spiritual leader (1869-1948)

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmond Burke

"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." - Albert Schweitzer-at his death

"It is just like mans vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." - Mark Twain - American author/humorist (1835-1910)

"Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them." - Denis de Rougement - Author

"I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans." -Sigmund Freud - Austrian physician (1856-1939)

"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." - Hippocrates- Greek physician (460?-377? B.C.)

"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest." - Henry David Thoreau

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals." - Pete Singer (Australian Philosopher)

"Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed. " - Mark Twain American author/humorist (1835-1910)

"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

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." - George Eliot English novelist (1819-1880)

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself." - James Anthony Froude-English historian (1818-1894)

"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence." - Will Cuppy

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." - Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." - Martin Buber

"It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked." - Haile Selassie

"It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." - Dr. Albert Schweitzer (Nobel Peace Prize) French philosopher/physician (1875-1965)

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures." - Dalai Lama - Tibetan spiritual leader (1934- )

"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." - Albert Einstein - Physicist (1879-1955)

"Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind." - Henry Bergh - Founder of ASPCA (1811-1888)

"The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"Our moral and ethical responsibility is to protect other species in the spirit of husbandry rather than destroy them in and attitude of conquest." - Charles Southwick

"This we know. The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the Earth. This we know. All things are connected like blood which unites one family. All things are connected. 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, His address, 1853

"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest..." - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

"The Saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to brute beasts ... surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves." - St. John Chrysostom

"Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for man." - Thomas E. Lovejoy

"When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity." - George Bernard Shaw - English playwright (1856-1950)

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity." - George Bernard Shaw

"Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai." - Count Leo Tolstoy

"The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Schopenhauer (The Basis of Moral Duty)

"Those who wish to pet and baby wildlife love them, but those who respect their natures and wish to let them live their natural lives, love them more." - Edwin Way Teale

"Ultimately, more people will hear these caring voices, and see these kind actions. I believe that it is this communicational or public education aspect of what we are doing that is the most important part of all." - John Walton, (Ivanhoe Veterinary Clinic, Australia)

"The lie has only one objective - self interest - while every truth has only one funtion - sharing." - Jerome Deshusses, The Eighth Night of Creation

"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope

"The grizzly is a symbol of what is right with the world." - Charles Jonkel, American Bear Biologist

"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from great lonliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. " - Chief Seathl, Duwanish Tribe

"Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain..." - John Muir...upon finding a dead bear in Yosemite

"If we can learn to live with bears, especially the grizzly, and if we can learn to accommodate the needs of bears in their natural environment, then maybe we can also find ways to use the finite resources of our continent and still maintain some of the diversity and natural beauty that were here when Columbus arrived." - Stephen Herrero- Author, "Bear Attacks:Their Causes and Avoidance"

"When all the dangerous cliffs are fenced off, all the trees that might fall on people are cut down, all of the insects that bite have been poisoned…and all of the grizzlies are dead because they are occasionally dangerous, the wilderness will not be made safe. Rather, the safety will have destroyed the wilderness." - R. Yorke Edwards (Canadian Environmentalist)

"Bears keep me humble. They help me to keep the world in perspective and to understand where I fit on the spectrum of life. We need to preserve the wilderness and its monarchs for ourselves, and for the dreams of children. We should fight for these things as if our life depended on it, because it does." - Wayne Lynch (Bears:Monarchs of the Northern Wilderness, 1993)

"The wilderness is not a renewable resource. If it is possible for humans and wildlife to coexist, we must endeavor to understand as much as possible about their needs to minimize negative impacts." - Author Unknown