Animals Quote by Emma Marris

“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”

— Munia Khan

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

— Mark Twain

“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.”

— Michael Crichton

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons…

— Anonymous

“wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats.”

— John Durant

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame…

— Anonymous

“People forget that humans are animals too, that we're just as much a part of the wild places as the things that live in…

— Vincent H. O Neil

“There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were…

— Kathleen Jamie

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they follow, the…

— Robert Macfarlane

“No animal will change when its conditions are good enough for present survival. And in this matter man is still an animal.”

— H.G. Wells

The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.

— Eric Goode