Learn From Animals Quotes

#1. We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.

Anthony D. Williams

#2. The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits - not animals ... . There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Ronald Reagan

#3. Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

Jonathan Haidt

#4. Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

Brad Thor

#5. Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.

Tom Regan

#6. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.

Elizabeth George

#7. I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

Merrill Markoe

#8. I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.5

Pat Schneider

#9. It seems to me perfectly possible to act humanely towards other beings, whether humans or animals or plants. One simply has to learn how to behave. To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

Talal Asad

#10. There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Nathan Wolfe

#11. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

Orson Welles

#12. When we learn to relax and simply be present for the animal without judgment, we will find it much easier to connect with animals, and in turn, we will begin to see better responses from them.

Kathleen Prasad

#13. I have the best daddy in the whole world, and I will miss him every day. When I see a crocodile, I will always think of him, and I know that Daddy made this zoo so everyone could come and learn to love all the animals.

Bindi Irwin

#14. Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

Jane Goodall

#15. If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree ...

Rex Harrison

#16. The more you learn about animals and animal rights - it's an intriguing, fascinating world.

Mona Simpson

#17. The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Mark Twain

#18. You can learn more from watching the animals than you can from a guru or a minister - or from reading my book.

Jane Roberts

#19. I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Dominic Monaghan

#20. When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#22. Oh, I hope I don't teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won't learn the obvious lesson.

Chris Cleave

#23. learn to live like the wild animals,

John Muir

#24. Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

Eric Hoffer

#25. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.

Winston Churchill

#26. You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."
That's right," said Miro.
Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

Orson Scott Card

#27. The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

James J. Gibson

#28. Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don't have to live so long

Robin Downing

#29. It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology. On

Diane Ackerman

#30. Living with animals can be a wonderful experience, especially if we choose to learn the valuable lessons animals teach through their natural enthusiasm, grace, resourcefulness, affection and forgiveness.

Richard Pitcairn

#31. I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

John Burnside

#32. I love animals, and not only do I get to help animals in need, I learn a lot too!

Matthew Moy

#33. Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

Matt Groening

#34. When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Winston Churchill

#35. The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

Jack Hanna

#36. I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home ... and start creating the world I have seen.

Jean Craighead George

#37. Mickey Cray was surprised to learn that Derek Badger didn't want any of his captive critters on location. Mickey had never wrangled for a nature show that used only wild animals, nor had he ever encountered a person less qualified than Derek to handle untamed specimens.

Carl Hiaasen

#38. God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

Margaret Atwood

#39. We were told that every morning the first thing that her dog did when he got up was to stretch, adding that we can all learn a lot from our animals' behaviour. She's probably right but, personally, I draw the line at trying to lick my own balls.

John Donoghue

#40. But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

James Cromwell

#41. Animals that live in large peaceful societies seem to violate the laws of evolution (such as competition and survival of the fittest), but only until you learn a bit more about evolution.

Jonathan Haidt

#42. You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

Joel Stein

#43. There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.

Aleksandra Layland

#44. Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. That's it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

Joanna Lumley

#45. Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway

#46. From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.

George Gaylord Simpson

#47. He knew there were some who said that those who kept dogs had to resign themselves to their eventual loss because of the animals' relatively short lives. The trick - if "trick" was the right word - was to learn to love the spirit of the animal, and to recognize that it transferred itself from dog to

John Connolly