Animals Quote by 1928 Henry Beston

The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with…

— Henry Beston

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the…

— Henry Beston

“We need another wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and…

— Daphne Sheldrick

“Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to…

— Nick Trout

“With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.”

— Alexander von Humboldt

“It seems that intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.”

— Mark Nepo

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's…

— George Eliot

“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to meet and…

— Matthew Scully

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is the one…

— Peter Matthiessen

“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett