Alive Quote by Sy Montgomery

“It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.”

Sy Montgomery

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“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact…

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“As with a child, to commune with Athena demands a level of openness and intuition greater than that used in the usual discourse between…

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“I was warmly amused at the way each one tried to outdo the others in showing how her ape was the “most human”—trying to…

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“Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of…

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Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo…

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“They don’t want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we’re the same. They know what it’s like…

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“Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our…

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“The affection the aquarists felt for the octopus appeared to be mutual. For the hours that they swam together, though the massive octopus could…

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“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self,” she…

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“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

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“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'…

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Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and…

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