Animals Quote by Karen Shanor

“This account of action understanding is further corroborated by a recent discovery: the motor system of primates is functionally organized in terms of goal-directed…

— Scott R. Garrels

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.

— Daniel Wolpert

The movements we do are complex but natural, they're picking stuff up off the ground, running, jumping, climbing - stuff that we were made…

— Rich Froning Jr

“When we mediate while moving, we are able to connect with varied and deep parts of ourselves. We are able to integrate new energies…

— Amy Leigh Mercree

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in…

— John Ratey

The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act…

— Charles Scott Sherrington

The development of the mind comes through movement

— Maria Montessori

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever…

— James Hollis

Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.

— Daniel D. Palmer

“Conscious parts of the brain train other parts of the neural machinery, establishing the goals and allocating the resources.”

— David Eagleman

Movement is the unifying bond between the mind and the body, and sensations are the substance of that bond.

— Deane Juhan