Animal Quote by Johan Huizinga

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

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

“Hunger, safety, & social attachment seem to be more important than play. If an animal is hungry, stressed or lonely, he is unlikely to play.”

— Jennifer Arnold

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew…

— Johan Huizinga

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

— Jenna Morasca

Society, in general, has taught for many generations that when you reach a certain age, you have to learn to stop playing.

— Matthew Mercer

People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens…

— Darell Hammond

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

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past…

— Rebecca Goldstein

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

— John Thorn

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

— Johan Huizinga