Animal Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music…

— Gustave Flaubert

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the…

— Linda Hogan

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

— Walker Percy

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

human animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By…

— Alice Walker

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“All things have the capacity for speech -- all beings have the ability to communicate something of themselves to other beings. Indeed, what is…

— David Abram

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the…

— Richard Dawkins

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may…

— Jeff Stilson

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That…

— Jeff Stilson