Animal Observation Quotes

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.

The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

However much you know giraffes, to see one in the wild for the first time feels prehistoric.

People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to look at humans differently.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.

I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

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

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.