Marge Piercy Quotes

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

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

Savage bears agree with one another.

I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

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.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

All the animals come out at night.

As I stood, I took in a last breath of spring-scented air, listened to the birdsong, and then saw a member of wildlife the conservationists hadn't planned on reviving in this place. A perv in a white shirt and polyester pants. A standard hide-in-the-bushes-and-whack-it perv. Fat and balding, it was as appealing as watching a giant marshmallow go at it.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals are sensory based thinkers and I wrote about this in my book, Animals in Translation. That an animal's memory is not in words, they've got to be in pictures - it's very detailed so let's say the animal gets afraid of something - they'll get afraid of something that they're looking at or hearing, the moment the bad thing happens.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.

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.