The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.
Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.
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.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.
I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.
Not only was it necessary to get the gorillas accustomed to the bluejeaned creature who had become a part of their daily lives, it was also very necessary for me to know and recognize the particular animals of each group as the amazing individuals they were.
Dogs are in on our human silliness; lions are not.
I have made my home among the mountain gorillas.
When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.
The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
