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.
"Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern
Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive
and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an
unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere
things which men do right to regard for their own ends...."