Quotes about animal
animal thinking views
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species - and we're just animals too, we're just mammals - that there is nothing morally special about us. I myself don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters. Daniel Dennett
animal faces desperation
When they face desperation... human beings become animals. Dan Brown
animal past people
Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely inside their own social moment, and thus tend to see all existence past age thirty or so as somehow postcoital. It's then that they'll relax, settle back, sad animals, to watch- and learn, as Ambrose himself said he learned from hard artistic and academic experience- that life instead of being rated a hard R, or even a soft R, actually rarely even makes it into distribution. Tends to be too slow. David Foster Wallace
animal-rights moral species
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. David Attenborough
animal wonderful conservation
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
animal people needs
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
animal knowing trying
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
animal keys world
Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are.
animal trying interest
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
animal thinking
I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.
animal watches generations
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
animal thinking bird
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.
animal thinking mourning
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.
animal astounded
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
animal rhinos way
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
animal ecosystems world
If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse
animal different alive
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
animal rights humanitarian
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. Daryl Hannah
animal rights important
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.
animal thinking people
Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten. Dominique Swain
animal interest
Animals interest me more than anything else. Douglas Brinkley
animal life-is-like life-is
Life is like animal porn, it's not for everyone. Doug Stanhope
animal borders benefits
The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them. Douglas Adams
animal average years
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.
animal definitions geek
A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals. Crispin Glover
animal ducks spirit
In case you were wondering, my spirit animal is a duck billed platypus. Creed Bratton
animal three television
Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals. Criss Angel
animal poison density
There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like. Claude Levi-Strauss
animal roaring bigs
We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring. Cory Doctorow
animal essence discipline
Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh. Clive Owen
animal people wonderful
Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings. Clive Barker
animal intellectual acting
Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing. Clint Eastwood
animal attention charlottes-web
It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. E. B. White