Animal Quote by Robert Ardrey

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the…

— Robert Greene

“Animals can sense peace or anxiety, dedication or disinterest. They’re incredibly attuned to people’s moods. They pick up things we’re not even aware we’re…

— Roan Parrish

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something…

— Jay Griffiths

“No other animals have collective intentionality combined with words. A few other animal species do have symbolic communication of a sort. Elephants appear to…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

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

We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should,…

— Rebecca Hall

I think the use of language is a very important means by which this species, because of its biological nature, creates a kind of…

— Noam Chomsky

Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language…

— Marc Bekoff

I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping…

— Frans de Waal

Communication is the transfer of emotion.

— Seth Godin

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

— Noam Chomsky

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and…

— Anonymous