Umwelt Quotes

#1. Not unlike Lorenz's emphasis on knowing the whole animal, Imanishi urged us to empathize with the species under study. We need to get under its skin, he said, or as we would nowadays put it, try to enter its Umwelt.

Frans De Waal

#2. Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey
even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

John Vaillant

#3. Our manifest image, unlike the daisy's ontology or Umwelt, really is manifest, really is subjective in a strong sense. It's the world we live in, the world according to us.

Daniel C. Dennett

#4. Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruno Bettelheim

#5. He on his way." "Maybe he'll bring a sword." "Maybe he'll bring a tank." I shook my head. "I hate being rescued." "Then why aren't we trying to get to the car?" "Because I hate being eaten even more.

Seanan McGuire

#6. Maybe that's one of the ways you recognize really lonely people . . . they can always think of something neat to do on rainy days. You can always call them up. They're always home. Fucking always. For

Stephen King

#7. In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.

Jimmy Carl Black

#8. Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Kate Baldwin

#9. AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.

Blake Shelton

#10. Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time
'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Vera Nazarian