"We are not the only animal that mourns;……" — Geraldine Brooks

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants,… - Geraldine Brooks

"We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures."

— Geraldine Brooks

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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that…
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of…

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More Animal Quotes

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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