Understanding Animals Quotes

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.