“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” — Sy Montgomery Ancient 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 Cambodia 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… — Sy Montgomery Adults 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… — Sy Montgomery Octopus 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… — Sy Montgomery Child 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… — Sy Montgomery Marine biologist Copy Share Image
“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment… — Sy Montgomery Education 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… — Sy Montgomery Animal 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… — Sy Montgomery Dude 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… — Sy Montgomery Animal 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… — Sy Montgomery Consciousness 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… — Sy Montgomery Korean war 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… — Sy Montgomery Animal 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… — Sy Montgomery Different types Copy Share Image
“Unlike the supply of dogs, the supply of good names isn't limitless.” — Sy Montgomery Good Name Copy Share Image
It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be… — Sy Montgomery Alive Copy Share Image
“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.” — Sy Montgomery Animal Copy Share Image
“Bear-time seems slow to us, perhaps, because we do not have the patience for such a life.” — Sy Montgomery Life Copy Share Image
“But perhaps, in a world “older and more complete” than ours, there is a love that does not demand a reciprocal debt… — Sy Montgomery Love Copy Share Image
“Normally a prolonged stare from a gorilla is a threat. But Digit’s gaze bore no aggression. He seemed to say: I know.… — Sy Montgomery Stare Gorilla Copy Share Image
“Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas modeled their approach on Jane Goodall’s: they began their studies by relinquishing control. In the masculine world… — Sy Montgomery Science Copy Share Image
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation… — Sy Montgomery 1960s Copy Share Image
“In all religions, as in all legal systems. people find ways to skirt the rules. We obey the letter of the law… — Sy Montgomery Law Copy Share Image
“That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from the country they call… — Sy Montgomery Cynical Copy Share Image
“Isn’t this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting,… — Sy Montgomery Care Copy Share Image
“And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have… — Sy Montgomery Mourning Copy Share Image
“There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course,” Jane wrote in an early chapter… — Sy Montgomery Animal Copy Share Image
“Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you… — Sy Montgomery Blessing Copy Share Image
“Even in the wake of tragedy, we could not have felt more amazed had we been visited by an angel that Christmas… — Sy Montgomery Angel Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Animal 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… — Sy Montgomery Animal Copy Share Image
