Animals · Skopia

Art

40

Ishtar Gate

Artist unknown

575 BC★ 9.0

The Court of Gayumars

Sultan Muhammad

1525★ 9.0

Bacchus and Ariadne

1523★ 8.9

The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal

Artist unknown

645 BC★ 8.7

Great Hall of the Bulls

Artist unknown

17000 BC★ 8.6

The Sleeping Gypsy

1897★ 8.5

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Quotes

17

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 5.4

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.

Plato, Phaedo · 360 BC

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia · 77

★ 3.9

I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 3.9

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Books

4

White Fang (includes Call of the Wild and To Build a Fire)

1906★ 7.0

Watership Down

1972★ 6.0

Black Beauty

1877★ 5.3

My Family and Other Animals

1956★ 5.0