Sara Gruen Quotes

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

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)

We're all animals.

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

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

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 probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.

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!

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

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time.

Our knowledge of animals and their behaviour has come a long way. We can no longer justify imprisoning them, robbing them of everything that is natural and important to them and turning them into objects of ridicule for our amusement.

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.

There were only so many kicks a dog could take before it turned vicious.’ (Acheron)

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

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

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

In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment of his brother beasts. From the shepherd with his lambs to the red-handed hunter, it is the same; no recognition of rights - only murder in one form or another.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

There are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?