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:
“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)
“Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think.... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”
—René Daumal (1908–1944)
“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.... Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)