Maria Edgeworth Quotes

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

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.

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 always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

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.

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

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

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

We're all animals.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I have always loved animals since I was very young.

I'm a really big animal lover.

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

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

I've just always loved animals.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.