Animal Quote by William Godwin

I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the…

— Thomas Huxley

The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.

— Andrew O'Hagan

The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the…

— Saint Bernard

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

— Paul Kingsnorth

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

“Thus by an unprejudiced observation of the animal kingdom, we reach the conclusion that wherever society exists at all, this principle may be found:…

— Peter Kropotkin

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in…

— Jane Goodall

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

— Edward Thorndike

There are millions of chapters in human nature,every chapter is very complex and beautiful,and every chapter deserves to be understand,if you want to know…

— Liaqat Ali Khan

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

— Edith Wharton