Diane Ackerman Quotes

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

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

Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is.

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

Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

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 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.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

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

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.

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

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

I think the only regret I have is not to have opened my eyes sooner to aspects of life like the relationship of man with nature and animals.

Having had so many human rats in my life, I don't think I'm scared of the animal variety.

These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.