Bryan Fuller Quotes

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

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!

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

Animals make us Human.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

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

Animals are thinking, feeling creatures. They're sensitive.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

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.

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.

I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.