Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.