A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
动物
Animals
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
动物用它们的排泄物勾勒出它们的领地,人类用墨水在纸上勾勒出它们的领地。
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
在动物的思想中,人类的领导,不是作为来自另一个星球的半神,而是作为来自同一种族的国王。
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.
动物从来没有背叛过我。他们很容易成为猎物,就像我整个职业生涯一样。所以我们有同感。我爱他们。
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
因为动物是财产,我们认为这是一种“人道的对待”,如果动物被强加于人类,我们会认为这是一种折磨。
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
坚持为动物而战,每天做出富有同情心、不残忍的选择,并鼓励身边的人也这样做。
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
我唯一不喜欢的动物是鹦鹉,但我边走边学。我做得越来越好了,真的。
For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.
对我来说,它总是与健康有关。这就是我成为素食主义者的原因。我这么做并不完全是为了我的健康,而是为了动物。
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
音乐家也许是最谦虚的动物,但他也是最自豪的。正是他发明了破坏诗歌的崇高艺术。
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
但是如果你出于所有正确的理由去爱动物——那就是爱和情感——那么你就会去追求那些需要你的动物。
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
对我来说,动物的命运比害怕显得可笑更重要;它与人类的命运密不可分。
I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.
我喜欢所有这些小动物,它们会跑,会吃,会藏。我喜欢他们的脸,他们看起来既害怕又好奇。
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
教你的孩子如何与动物相处。采用一种宠物。不要去买。请。这是一个罪。让我们让这些小狗制造厂倒闭。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
野生动物很瘦,我认为我们也应该瘦。
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
皮草与其他由动物制成的材料,如皮革,在道德上没有区别,而皮革也是众生受苦和死亡的结果。
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
人们认为虐待穷人就是虐待动物。他们从不认为平等是不公平的;不,这是对同志的背叛。
The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals.
地球对大多数动物来说是一个很大的孤儿院。
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
不管动物承认与否,它们和我交流。