I don’t mind aging – I’m glad to be aging. I’ll never die young. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
All the members of the dog family – domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes – are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory – you can’t have others taking it from you, because then you won’t have enough food. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
People didn’t think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
As far as I’m concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I’d grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That’s like losing a dog. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
This was what you did in the ’50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids – a girl and a boy. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America’s most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America’s most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
