Douglas Brinkley Quotes

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

I love the rabbits and the squirrels and the birds.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

So for me, anything that has to do with animals, and I'm a happy camper.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

I'm very passionate about animals.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.