John Nettles Quotes

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

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.

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

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.

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

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

I would never sell my dog for a man. I'd sell the man.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Animals make us Human.