21 Quotes by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Strange as it seems, we appear to be the only species who do not have an instinctive ability to know what food we should eat to stay healthy. All other animals do. We consider ourselves a superior species, yet we are destroying the only planet we have, endangering our very existence.

Swimming the ocean a giant brain watches us.

The standards for defining the existence of emotions in animals begin with those in common use for humans. One should demand no more proof that an animal feels an emotion than would be demanded of a human – and, like humans, the animal should be permitted to speak its own emotional language, which it is up to the beholder to understand.