Betty White Quotes

Animals interest me more than anything else.

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in the animal kingdom. No dinner, no movie - just a quick sniff, 'Alright, let's go.'

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals are sensory based thinkers and I wrote about this in my book, Animals in Translation. That an animal's memory is not in words, they've got to be in pictures - it's very detailed so let's say the animal gets afraid of something - they'll get afraid of something that they're looking at or hearing, the moment the bad thing happens.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

It's amazing how much actual chicken sounds lend themselves to stupidity.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.