Animal Quotes

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

Bradford Cox
- Music
- Stuff
- Influenced
You handle animals. You deal with people.

Red Auerbach
- People
- Deals
- Handle

I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures; to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.

Stephen Covey
- Father
- Inspired
- Natural
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.

Diane Ackerman
- Spiritual
- Internet
- Plant
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Jostein Gaarder
- Problem
- Animal
- Human
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

Terence McKenna
- World
- Mind
- Imagination
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

Sara Gruen
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book The Sixth Extinction is that we are unusual.

Elizabeth Kolbert