Animal Quotes by Temple Grandin

Animals make us Human.

— Temple Grandin

People wouldn’t have become who we are today if we hadn’t coevolved with dogs.

— Temple Grandin

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

— Temple Grandin

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

— Temple Grandin

All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.

— Temple Grandin

The most important thing in a shelter is that volunteers, especially with dogs, come in everyday, take that pet out for an…

— Temple Grandin

As you may know, some of the stereotyped behaviors exhibited by autistic children are also found in zoo animals who are raised…

— Temple Grandin

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff…

— Temple Grandin

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs…

— Temple Grandin

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want…

— Temple Grandin

The animal that I have worked with the most is beef cattle, so that's my favorite animal, but I like all animals.

— Temple Grandin

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how…

— Temple Grandin

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to…

— Temple Grandin

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the…

— Temple Grandin

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune…

— Temple Grandin

Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals…

— Temple Grandin

In a dog social cue from a master can override where he saw the being placed. That won’t happen unless we have…

— Temple Grandin

We found if you took the dog out for 45 minutes a day and worked with it that the solitary stress hormone,…

— Temple Grandin

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does…

— Temple Grandin

Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got…

— Temple Grandin

An animal’s memory is not in words, they’ve got to be in pictures – it’s very detailed so let’s say the animal…

— Temple Grandin

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the…

— Temple Grandin

How do you have a think in pictures? Well, you have to sort the pictures into categories. You know, for example, a…

— Temple Grandin

We breed dogs to be more social than the wolf. There is very interesting research that has been done with a wolf…

— Temple Grandin

I studied a lot of animal behavior and one of the things I find really interesting is the whole idea that animals…

— Temple Grandin

One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've…

— Temple Grandin

I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a…

— Temple Grandin

Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that…

— Temple Grandin

In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation… Typical abuses I have witnessed…

— Temple Grandin

There are three basic ways [to use a dog to work with autistic children], one is just to be companion person and…

— Temple Grandin

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals…

— Temple Grandin

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire…

— Temple Grandin

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up…

— Temple Grandin

You got to get away from words if you want to understand any animal. It thinks in pictures, it thinks in smells,…

— Temple Grandin

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic,…

— Temple Grandin

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest…

— Temple Grandin

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve,…

— Temple Grandin

Well the dog that is the most is the a Labrador retrievers because they tolerate kids tugging on them and things better…

— Temple Grandin

Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put…

— Temple Grandin

One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and…

— Temple Grandin