April Gornik Quotes

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

I have been brought up in a house where animals are our friends and we treat them as equals.

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

My animals are a really important part of my life.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.