Bunnies Quote by Daniel Dennett

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something…

— Jay Griffiths

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“All things have the capacity for speech -- all beings have the ability to communicate something of themselves to other beings. Indeed, what is…

— David Abram

“Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve itself from…

— Sheila Finch

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

— Jonathan Lethem

“And Mrs. Treaclebunny has promised to speak English from now on as well. In fact, she said when she goes to England, that's all…

— Polly Horvath

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By…

— Alice Walker

There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

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

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty