Animal Quotes by Sy Montgomery

“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact…

— Sy Montgomery

“As with a child, to commune with Athena demands a level of openness and intuition greater than that used in the usual discourse between…

— Sy Montgomery

“I was warmly amused at the way each one tried to outdo the others in showing how her ape was the “most human”—trying to…

— Sy Montgomery

“Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of…

— Sy Montgomery

Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo…

— Sy Montgomery

“They don’t want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we’re the same. They know what it’s like…

— Sy Montgomery

“Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our…

— Sy Montgomery

“The affection the aquarists felt for the octopus appeared to be mutual. For the hours that they swam together, though the massive octopus could…

— Sy Montgomery

“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self,” she…

— Sy Montgomery

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

— Sy Montgomery

Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and…

— Sy Montgomery

“Laos is saddled with the distinction of one superlative: it is the most heavily bombed country on earth. During the nine-year secret war against…

— Sy Montgomery

“Cambodia is the most heavily mined country on earth, with 4 to 8 million land mines, according to one estimate.”

— Sy Montgomery

“the relationship that Jane Goodall has with the chimpanzees of Gombe—and that Dian Fossey had with the mountain gorillas she studied, and Biruté Galdikas…

— Sy Montgomery