Alice Walker Quotes

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.

Animals make us Human.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.

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

I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.