Animal Behaviour Quotes

#1. DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks.

Yuval Noah Harari

#2. A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#3. When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

Jane Goodall

#4. Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud.

John Bowlby

#5. I'd been interested in animal behaviour as a teenager and had thought of studying it at one point.

Michelle Paver

#6. The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

Garry Shandling

#7. Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

Barbara Johnson

#8. The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields ... : The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.

Rupert Sheldrake

#9. The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. 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.

Immanuel Kant

#11. Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

Tommy Chong

#12. Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Richard Mabey

#13. I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

Maira Kalman

#14. Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human.

Carrie Latet

#15. I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Kingsley Amis

#16. Peace begins in the mind with a simple thought of love and kindness for all.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Iman

#18. at least some paleontologists believe that the demise
of the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.

Carl Sagan

#19. Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

Laurence Sterne

#20. There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

John Britt Daniel

#21. What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.

Edward Mayhew

#22. If you don't like pictures of animal cruelty being posted on social media, you need to help stop the cruelty, not the pictures. You should be bothered that its happening, not that you saw it.

Marie Sarantakis

#23. The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitely
adapted to the ecology of the animal. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep.

Carl Sagan

#24. In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#25. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

Margaret Mead

#26. In the world of the extended phenotype, ask not how an animal's behaviour benefits its genes; ask instead whose genes it is benefiting.

Richard Dawkins