"Because I'm not gonna lie - your girlfriend is probably comparing you to vegan men, who, in my own humble opinion, happen to be the most romantic, generous, thoughtful, caring men on the planet. When someone gives up eating animals simply because of the cruelty involved, it opens a door in his or her brain. And this portal leads the way to a whole new set of ideals and selfless desires." ~Rory Freedman
"None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones." ~Forbes Watson
"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~William Carlos Williams
"Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Flowers are love's truest language." ~Park Benjamin
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." ~Aristotle
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one." ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Every flower is a soul opening out to nature." ~Gerard De Nerval
"I am confident that the hottest places in hell are reserved for the souls of sick and brutal people who hold God's creatures in such brutal and cruel contempt" ~Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WV (speaking to the Senate about the Michael Vick dogfighting case, - July 19, 2007)
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." ~ Albert Einstein
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -Gahndi
"The day that hunting becomes a sport is the day that the animals can shoot back. Until then hunting is no sport, just some evil power trip." -Fred @ Vegan Militant Movement
"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done." -Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that is the essence of inhumanity." -George Bernard Shaw
"Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners." -John Muir
"The animals of the world exists for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white people, or women created for men." -Alice Walker
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." -Robert Louis Stevenson
"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder." -Benjamin Franklin
"Non violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming other living beings, we are still savages." -Thomas Edison
"I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars...You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings." - Barack Obama
"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." -Abraham Lincoln.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." -Albert Einstein
"There is always music amongst the trees and in the gardens, but our hearts must be still to hear it." -Author Unknown
"Cows are not just magical milk machines - like humans, they must get pregnant to begin producing milk. If you're a dairy farmer, or much more common these days, a gigantic agribusiness corporation, when that baby is born it immediately becomes your number-one competitor for mama's milk. So, to maximize profits you toss that calf into a tiny wooden box and sell him to the veal industry. Then you get the momma pregnant again so her milk production statys at its optimum level and repeat the process. Over the course of her life, she'll lose numerous babies to the wooden box and when her milk production drops off, she's off to the slaughterhouse. So much for milk not killing cows." -Dan Piraro from Cheese Impotence, VegNews, April 2007
"Live simply. Meditate. Consume less. Think more. Get to know your neighbors. Borrow when you need to and lend when asked. E.F. Schumacher praised that philosophy this way in Small Is Beautiful: 'Amazingly small means leading to extraordinarily satisfying results.'" -Coco Masters from The Global Warming Survival Guide, Time