Alive Quote by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it.…

— Louis Yako

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is a living thing

— Gilbert Highet

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

— Temple Grandin

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it…

— Terence McKenna

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett