Animal Wisdom Quotes

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

I was in a bar in Rio and a cow walked in, I looked into its eyes, and I saw such tranquillidad, serenity. Then I started seeing cows everywhere. I realise why the Indians worship them.

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

And then you have the orangutans. There's a softness, and kindness, and there's almost this glint of humor that lies behind everything that they do. There's this old-soul sort of wisdom. And with that comes this cool, unhurried, decisive, linear way of moving through space.

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

I really love learning about animals. I pull from a deck of spirit animal cards. You pull one, and it's about 50 or 60 different animals, and then that day you read whichever animal you pull. And it kind of gives you insight.

Animals have been talking to me. And any shaman will say that that's not that weird.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.