Animal Quote by Shigeru Miyamoto

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what…

— Ian Bogost

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

— Johan Huizinga

If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in…

— Susanna Miller

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

— Leo Buscaglia

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.”

— Sarah Ruhl

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

“Hunger, safety, & social attachment seem to be more important than play. If an animal is hungry, stressed or lonely, he is unlikely to play.”

— Jennifer Arnold

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the…

— J. G. Holland

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith