Walt Whitman Quotes

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

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

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

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

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

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

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

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

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.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

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

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

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

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

Animals make us Human.

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

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.

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.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

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.