Donald Hall Quotes

Savage bears keep at peace with one another.

Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.

I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time.

How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.

He gathers nuts among the rushes.

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

The squirrel in my yard really knows his way around the neighborhood.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

Savage bears agree with one another.

I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one.

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.

How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A multitude of animal people, intimately related to us, but of whose lives we know almost nothing, are as busy about their own affairs as we are about ours.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.