Adult life Quote by Susanna Miller

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

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

— Robin Marantz Henig

“Ideally play is joyful and childlike, a physically and psychologically healthy exercise for both people and dogs. Psychologists and spiritual counselors advise us all…

— Patricia B. McConnell

“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

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

— Jaco Pastorius

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

— Frank Caplan

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

— Katie Salen

Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems…

— Margaret Guenther