Aristotle Quotes

When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.

I can do a really good animal impression! I'm great at ducks, cats, dogs, and occasionally dolphins.

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

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

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

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

I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

Fox taught me how to sing and dance

[Carter just asked when I became a ram whisperer. Do shut up, Carter]

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.