D. A. Pennebaker Quotes

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'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!

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

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

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

Animals interest me more than anything else.

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.

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.

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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 grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.

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

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

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

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

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

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