Animal Quote by Marcello Malpighi

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is…

— Suzy Kassem

To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show…

— Paul Nicklen

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the…

— Suzy Kassem

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into…

— Iain McGilchrist

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

— Rosa Bonheur

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us…

— Frans de Waal

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

— Richard Dawkins

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in…

— Delia Sherman

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

— William Shakespeare

“Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to us precisely because they are not us. They are uncompromisingly different. The paths they follow, the…

— Robert Macfarlane