Animals
- George (tortoise) (c. 1920 – 2004), long-serving pet on the British television series Blue Peter.
- Lonesome George, the last known remnant of the tortoise subspecies Geochelone nigra abingdonil
- George (Jack Russell Terrier) (c. 1993 – 2007), New Zealand dog awarded the PDSA Gold Medal in 2009.
- Giant George (Great Dane) (born 2005), the tallest dog ever recorded
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.”
—native American belief, quoted by D. Jenness in “The Carrier Indians of the Bulkley River,” Bulletin no. 133, Bureau of American Ethnology (1943)
“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced by every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)