Animal Quote by Konrad Lorenz

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

— Jim Davis

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.

— Sara Gruen

Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s…

— Daphne Sheldrick

“A friend once asked me why it was that stories about animals and their heroism...are so compelling. ...we love them because they're the closest…

— Gwen Cooper

It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being -…

— Gary A. Kowalski

The truth is I love animals more than I love most humans.

— Grace Dent

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

— John Muir

“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals…

— Matthew Scully

“Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet…

— Boria Sax

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

— Yi-Fu Tuan

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

— Robert Bringhurst

We are the only animal that tells stories.

— John Landgraf