“Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas morning. When the angel met the shepherds in Bethlehem, the shepherds "were sore afraid." When I was a… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Cambodia is the most heavily mined country on earth, with 4 to 8 million land mines, according to one estimate.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
