Animal Understanding Quotes

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 don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

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.

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

Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.

When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you generally find this between the dog and his master.

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

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

By the time I was six, I made an important discovery that I get along much better with animals than humans.

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

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

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

My study of the wild gorilla is not yet finished, and even when it is complete, it will contribute only a small part toward man's understanding of his closest animal relatives, the great apes. But one conclusion is already clear: The gorilla is one of the most maligned animals in the world.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

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

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

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