Louisa May Alcott Quotes

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

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Horses are wild animals, essentially, and they're not there to do what humans want them to - they can be browbeaten or cajoled or trained, but they don't hear English; they're not obedient most of the time.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!'

First be a good animal.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable.

We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.