Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
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I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.
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Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.
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With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.
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You can look at your dog and see that it's thinking and has strong feelings. And if it does, so do wolves. And if wolves do, so do elephants. People aren't the only beings that think and feel.
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Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
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The story of cats is a story of meat.
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When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
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One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.
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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.
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You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
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I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.
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Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.
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No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.
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The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.
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Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.
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Dogs are a window on the natural world.