Animal Quotes

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us…

  • Rai Aren, Secret of the Sands

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.

  • Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality

Photography portraits of animals

Tim Flach is an animal photographer with an interest in the way humans shape animals and shape their meaning while exploring the role of imagery in fostering an emotional connection. Bringing to life the complexity of the animal kingdom, his work ranges widely across species, united by a distinctive stylisation reflecting an interest in how we better connect people to the natural world.

Close up tiger portrait

Banning Trophy Hunting

Portrait of an African lion

Trophy hunters pay huge sums of money to kill wild animals for in-home display. They enter their achievements into record books kept by member organizations. Trophy hunting harms conservation by exacerbating the population decline of many imperiled species. Compared to trophy hunting, wildlife-watching tourism generates far more income to support conservation and provides far more jobs to local people.

The Humane Society is fighting to ban trophy hunting.