Best animal & groups Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”

Children Animal Environment Groups Rocks My Friends Plant Sand Urban Peers Brooks Waterfalls Peer Group Domesticated Animals Urban Environment

Author:Freeman Patterson

“A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.”

Needs Humans Persons Doe Self Animal Groups Tree Planets Conflict Skins Caring Circles Glad Welcome Soil Threatened Affirmation Psychologist Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Humans Kind Social Animal Successful Groups Design Selfish Solitary Human Society

Author:Frans de Waal

“Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.”

Thinking Way Different Together Used Animal Groups Dog Intelligent Different Ways Sophisticated Crow Lumps Highly Intelligent

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.”

Hate Enjoy Animal Emotion Groups Blood Hunting Helpless Thirst Outlets

Book:The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.”

Knows Men Needs Stills Enough Guy Space Animal Rooms Cases Wife Groups Smart Species Males Cows That Guy

Author:Julia Phillips

“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

Humans Made Together Individual Natural Animal Consciousness Groups Elements Flow Individuality Streams Lions Tribes Monkeys Restless Shifting Herds Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.”

Social Animal Groups

Author:Robert Greene

“If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.”

Ifs Looks Littles Two Moments Kids Force Animal Groups Little Kid Wild Animal

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.”

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Author:Criss Angel

“Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.”

Thinking Knows World Animal Groups Bird Kingdoms Mysterious Animal Kingdom

Author:David Attenborough

“One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.”

Source: The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith

“The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.”

Thinking Might Christian Religious Animal Rights Groups Industry Native Activist Animal Rights Native American Homosexual Environmentalist Think Twice Movie Industry Animal Rights Activists

Book:The Spirit-Filled Family

Source: The Spirit-Filled Family

“Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.”

Should Facts Space Animal Wonder Wonderful Groups Plant All Time Related Time And Space Familiarity Subordinates Origin Of Species

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.”

Thinking World Feels Believe Humans War Hands Animal Rights Groups Members Racism Universal Structure Human Rights Small Groups Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.”

Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness

“The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.”

Earth Animal Successful Rich Groups Evolution Discovery Species Diverse Arthropods

Author:Benjamin Van Roy

“Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

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Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.”

Humans Enough Social Animal Brain Groups Handle Complexity Arrangements Primates

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

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