Tippi Hedren Quotes

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.

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.

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

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

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

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.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Horses do sense things way before people.

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

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

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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.

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

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.

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!

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.