Animal Quote by Annalee Newitz

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who…

— Ursula Goodenough

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in…

— Frans Lanting

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities…

— Anonymous

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what…

— Carl Sagan

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past…

— Elizabeth Hand

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after…

— Brian Perkins

What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions…

— Thomas Berry

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

— Richard Jefferies

One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and…

— William Butler Yeats

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

— C. S. Lewis

“All supernatural horror depends on a confusion of what we believe should be and should not be. As scientists, philosophers, and spiritual figures have…

— Thomas Ligotti

I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't…

— Mike Flanagan