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This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment. They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.

Weeds by Mary T. Hoffman

Henry Bergh
(1813-1888)
Founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA and Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC)

"The insect in the plant, the moth which spends its brief hours of existence hovering about the candle’s flame - nay, the life which inhabits a drop of water, is as much an object of God’s special providence as the mightiest monarch on his throne."

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