Sy Montgomery Quotes

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

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

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

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

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

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

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 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 love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

I've just always loved animals.

Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.

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.

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.

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

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

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

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.