Mark Twain Quotes

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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!

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

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

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

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.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

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

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

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.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

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

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man's understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.

The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.