Animals Quote by Karen Shanor

“...[W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is…

— Kathryn Schulz

“Humans are fragile. Bats are tough and almost impossible to get rid of. Ask any exterminator”

— Richard Myerscough

“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Toads, beetles, bats.”

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day…”

— Anne Sexton

“A bat flies straight towards my face. it gives me a perfect view of of possibly one of the ugliest creatures alive. It has…

— J.E. Fison

“The country's various habitats are believed to contain close to 200 species of mammals and over 600 species of birds.”

— Lonely Planet

“Like in the zoo, you will always find lots of monkeys but very few lions.”

— Nabil N. Jamal

“Humans were six times more likely to kill each other than the average mammal.”

— Bobby Akart

“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.”

— Kōbō Abe

“People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We’re all in this together.”

— David Quammen