Karel Capek Quotes

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

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.

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.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.

When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

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.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

You can't train a penguin to act. You kind of have to take what you get.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.