Desmond Morris Quotes
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
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A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the ‘religion’ of our time.
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.