51 Quotes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.

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.

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.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.

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.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.

When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.