Animals Quote by Jennifer Arnold

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in…

— Susanna Miller

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

— Johan Huizinga

“You shouldn't play with your food. It's rude, barbaric, and there is nothing to be had but carnal gratification for the feral.”

— Penelope Fletcher

“Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting.”

— Jack London

“Play teaches people to be capable of living with others without control; it connects the experiences of vulnerability and surprise to curiosity and wonder,…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“...play, so far from being "by play," if I may so speak, is a matter of serious moment to the creature. Play is a…

— Karl Groos

“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.”

— Sarah Ruhl

“Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all…

— Patricia B. McConnell

“Moreover, when people are hungry, they become less charitable and more aggressive (e.g., choosing more severe punishment for an opponent in a game).fn7 There’s”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and…

— Michael Yaconelli

“I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.”

— Tom Upton