Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
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. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
We fill the woods with invasive primates camouflaged to look like piles of leaves who sneak around, sprinkling estrus doe urine and manipulating gadgets that sound like antlers clashing. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
With all due respect to the nation’s fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
Many expressions of a cat’s feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren’t very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they’re social. They have family groups. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Read Quote
